Difference between revisions of "Distraction"

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* People with anxiety have a high motivation to change.  
 
* People with anxiety have a high motivation to change.  
* A distraction can be defined as an urge to switch tasks.  
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* [[A distraction can be defined as an urge to switch tasks.]]
* Distractibility is not a permanent trait.  
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* [[Distractibility is not a permanent trait.]]
* Distractibility is a state of training.  
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* [[Distractibility is a state of training.]]
 
* Some people develop certain habits with less training than others.  
 
* Some people develop certain habits with less training than others.  
 
* There are no people who necessarily give in to distractions.  
 
* There are no people who necessarily give in to distractions.  
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* [[When working you are using two systems of attention: task attention vs. predictive attention.]]
 
* [[When working you are using two systems of attention: task attention vs. predictive attention.]]
 
* Task attention uses your central executive function network.  
 
* Task attention uses your central executive function network.  
* Predictive attention, also called default attention, uses the default mode network.  
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* [[Predictive attention, also called default attention, uses the default mode network.]]
 
* Task attention works in the present moment: this present step.
 
* Task attention works in the present moment: this present step.
 
* Predictive attention concerns the past or future: the next step.
 
* Predictive attention concerns the past or future: the next step.
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* Mirroring anxiety, how salience is generated:  
 
* Mirroring anxiety, how salience is generated:  
 
** Giving in to distractions trains your nucleus accumbens to label things as salient.  
 
** Giving in to distractions trains your nucleus accumbens to label things as salient.  
** The nucleus accumbens detects salience.  
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** [[The nucleus accumbens detects salience.]]
 
** The nucleus accumbens creates the craving upon detection.  
 
** The nucleus accumbens creates the craving upon detection.  
 
** The nucleus accumbens watches your response.  
 
** The nucleus accumbens watches your response.  

Latest revision as of 04:32, 17 December 2020

Key claims

  • Mirroring anxiety, how salience is generated:
    • Giving in to distractions trains your nucleus accumbens to label things as salient.
    • The nucleus accumbens detects salience.
    • The nucleus accumbens creates the craving upon detection.
    • The nucleus accumbens watches your response.
    • Avoidance retrains the nucleus accumbens to be less triggerable: habituation.
    • While avoiding a salient trigger, the craving level will increase, peak, and decrease as long as the avoidance behavior is maintained.
    • Further approach trains your nucleus accumbens to be more triggerable: sensitization of salience.
    • Giving in to a distraction reinforces the distractor, making it more salient for the future.
  • The reinforcement of distractors involves both negative reinforcement (relief) and positive reinforcement (enjoyment of distractor).
  • The greater the reinforcement, the greater the salience generated by giving in to distractor, so the more distracting it is the next time (sensitization).