mind Wandering

1. selective attention

1.1. helps you focus on a specific task for a certain time

2. attention bias

2.1. a person selectively attends to a certain catagory of stimuli in the environment

3. attention span

3.1. the amounts of time spend concentrating on a task before getting distracted

4. attention blindness

4.1. cause you missing things while the things are just in front of you

5. risk for not mindwandering

5.1. what are the risk for being pay attention

5.1.1. you might miss ome notifictaion on the phone

5.1.2. you might miss raise on the stock market and not sell the stock since you are pay attention to other things.

6. learning

6.1. memory

6.1.1. if you do not write anything down you can't remember

6.1.2. write something that can trigger your memory

6.1.3. write keyword are 10% more helpful

6.2. attention

6.2.1. sallency from a perception perspective

7. attention continum

7.1. bored to high alert to high stress

8. attention network

8.1. a network of brain regions invloved in conrol of attention

9. the more you know, the more you can know

9.1. mind wandering can make you not stressful since it is stressful for brain if they try to focus for a long period of time continously