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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. | + | * [[A distraction can be defined as an urge to switch tasks.]] |
| − | * Distractibility is not a permanent trait. | + | * [[Distractibility is not a permanent trait.]] |
| − | * Distractibility is a state of training. | + | * [[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. | ||
* A distraction is an urge to switch tasks | * A distraction is an urge to switch tasks | ||
| − | * 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. | + | * [[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. | + | ** [[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
- People with anxiety have a high motivation to change.
- A distraction can be defined as an urge to switch tasks.
- Distractibility is not a permanent trait.
- Distractibility is a state of training.
- Some people develop certain habits with less training than others.
- There are no people who necessarily give in to distractions.
- A distraction is an urge to switch tasks
- When working you are using two systems of attention: task attention vs. predictive attention.
- Task attention uses your central executive function network.
- Predictive attention, also called default attention, uses the default mode network.
- Task attention works in the present moment: this present step.
- Predictive attention concerns the past or future: the next step.
- We have deliberate and automated appraisals.
- We also have deliberate (task) and automated (predictive) attention.
- A distraction is when your predictive attention automatically takes you off the path you deliberately set for your task attention.
- The pull of predictive attention is a function of the salience of the next step.
- Salience is produced by reinforcement.
- 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).
