Principles of Success Plan: First Three Principles

Principles of Success Plan: First Three Principles

PSY 115- Psychology of Success

Strayer University

Principle 1: When I have many distractions, learning requires extra time and effort.

Selective attention is when the brain selectively filters out massive amounts of sensory information to focus on just one message (Garnett, 2014). Attention also allows a person to concentrate on the most critical information while being able to ignore the irrelevant stuff. It can selectively filter out things that you want to know. Selective attention can cause you not to get enough sleep, which leads to you having trouble with learning. It can cause you not to focus on what is essential. Selective attention is the phenomenon in which a person can identify specific concepts and imbibe them into their thinking thought process that a person would priorities their information (Myers, 2016)

In my life, I found that when I get a good night sleep, it helps to complete my task and improve my distraction that I might have thought out the day. Every morning I start out with a cup of coffee to help my performance in my duties for the day. After making sure that I get a least eight of sleep a day, it will help me to focus more on the critical things that must do for that day without any distractions. Although this might be hard for ten kids and new grandbaby I will do my best make sure that I have a good night sleep.

Principle 2: I learned that it could practice before a test it could get a better grade on it.

When using practice testing, it is a form of low- stakes and no-stakes testing it is administered outside of a classroom and done by the students by using such tools as flash cards (Khan Academy, 2013). The practice has shown to improve one ability to retain the information and perform at an elevated level. John Dunlosky and his researchers (Myers, 2016, p. 100) had found more than a hundred years of research that had yielded several hundred experiments show that practice test enhances the learning and retention. This does not mean that if we do not take do practice test will learn less.

I learned that it could practice before a test it could get a better grade on it. I also found using flash card can be very helpful as well. In the future, I plan to make sure that I am going to set time to practice before a test.

Principle 3: when observing others, it gets an ability to learning things.

Observational learning is when learning by watching others (Myers, 2016). These can occur when we spend time with others that are striving for the same goals. These allow us to see what will work or what will not work. If we were imitating or avoiding what the surrounding people are doing, we become better equipped to pursue and attain our goals. We are sometimes conscious of it or not, observing others can as cause us to learn and change our behavior which may be for the better or for worse. There is a lot of time behavior change can, and observation is incidental and can occur in the context of other activities. We are sometimes conscious of it or not, observing others can as cause us to learn and change our behavior which may be for the better or for worse. There is a lot of time behavior change can and observation is incidental and can occur in the context of other activities (Gardner, Lally, & Wardle, 2012).

I have used these principle work in my current job. I have only been at these for a few months now, and I often find myself sitting and observe my co-works doing their job. When watching my employees that I required to look over at work, I see writing things done to help me learn ways that I can help with their work. In the future, this principle indicates the most important of intentional surroundings with the people that I work with. I think if I spend more time practicing new ways that I can help my employee’s success at their job and move up in a company just like did.

References

Gardner, B., Lally, P., & Wardle, J. (2012). Making health habitual: The psychology of ‘habit-formation’ and general practice. The British Journal of General Practice, 62(605), 664-666. doi:10.3399/bjgp12X659466

Garnett, L. (2014, December 18). How do you define success? Inc. Retrieved from http://www.inc.com/laura-garnett/how-do-you-define-success.html

Khan Academy [khanacademymedicine]. (2013, October 24). Decay and interference [Video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/47JRs6hF_ic

Myers, D. (2016). Psychology. Asheville, NC: Soomo Learning. Available from http://www.webtexts.co

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