Sentences with phrase «distract myself from studying»

As for the adults who came to us claiming to have discovered their «true» sexual identity and to have heard about sex - change operations, we psychiatrists have been distracted from studying the causes and natures of their mental misdirections by preparing them for surgery and for a life in the other sex.

Children should never be distracted from their studies because they're too hungry to concentrate.

Excess consumer debt may even force you to take an outside job, which for many students isn't a good idea; an outside job may distract you from your studies and disrupt your financial - aid package.

«If it's preparing them for the future then yes absolutely, however if it's distracting them from their studies then to be taken with care.»

But the good news should not distract us from studying ways to improve the rate and reduce its inequities.

While I personally feel that modern AAA single player games are too long, the reality is that is not the case for your typically 18 - 24 year old who does not have an enormous game buying budget and needs a lot of content if he has any hope of keeping himself distracted from studying.

In addition, those in the high nomophobia group were more likely to get distracted from their studies and work.

The app will block access to all other apps you choose which distract you from studying for a set amount of time.

Not exact matches

Interestingly, the study says that while it takes an average 11 minutes for people to get distracted from a task, a good 25 minutes are consumed in focusing on the task even after getting back to it.

However, as numerous studies have shown, we're most creative when our brain is relaxed and distracted - away from the daily grind.

Even the San Francisco 49ers know that this is true: They implemented «cell phone» breaks into practices and meetings every half hour, because studies from Stanford show that millennials are too distracted and really aren't learning anything after that threshold.

Another study from Clemson University found that people who didn't get enough sleep had a «higher risk of being impulsive and distracted, as well as [made] poor decisions.»

Make sure your child's study space is free of the clutter that can distract from schoolwork.

He added: «School and college leaders still would like to see a later start to the application process, which takes too long and distracts students from their studies.

Created by Cal Newport from Georgetown University, Study Hacks Blog is a clever and refreshing look into how to perform productive, valuable, and meaningful work in an increasingly distracted digital age.

The authors of the study, from the University of California San Diego, are now working with companies to teach employees about the risks associated with distracted driving, and show them ways to avoid using their phones while driving.

For example, studies have shown that e-storybooks that contain lots of «bells and whistles» can distract young children from attending to and learning from the actual story.

Nor, says Dalton, should the routines outlined in the study distract parents from the most important contributors to childhood obesity.

Mobile devices like smartphones and tablets can be distracting from child - rearing, upending family routines and fueling stress in the home, a small, new study finds.

According to the study, which appears in the journal PLoS ONE, playing Tetris soon after a traumatic experience appears to protect against these flashbacks, by distracting the brain from the event and short - circuiting how upsetting memories and images are stored.

It's not just making a phone call or sending a text message that distracts you from what you're doing: A study out of Florida State University revealed that people who merely received text or call notifications committed more mistakes on a computer task they were working on than those who did it free of phone interruptions.

A Journal of Sports Sciences study found that when people performed four 30 - second all - out sprint intervals on a bike while listening to music, they had a more positive workout experience than when they pedaled without tunes — possibly because music helps distract you from the, uh, discomfort of a tough sprint.

Given the existence of intervention based studies such as those by Dean Ornish, and the absence of convincing evidence of the contrary, I don't see why the shortcoming from one study would grant taking the risk of eating animal products anyway, unless it's the least unhealthy addiction someone can choose to distract themselves from whatever they find challenging in their lives.

I'm trying the online dating thing at the moment while I have a wee break from studying (tried it a few months back but was far too distracted by how much work I should have been doing!)

There are also articles about obstacles to greater progress: a study reveals that teacher expectations impact students» likelihood of completing college and are often lower for black students than for their white counterparts, even after accounting for students» academic and demographic backgrounds; and a look at how allowing laptop use in the classroom actually distracts from student learning.

According to one study, expressive writing (describing feelings) ««offloads» worries from working memory, therefore relieving the distracting effects of worry on cognition.»

A study from psychologists at the University of Sussex suggests that more than one illustration per double - page distracts children and hinders learning.

This society concentrates on things unconducive to learning such as cars, clothes, and dating in his day (perhaps television, computer games, and the Internet today) and distracts youths from adult influence, academic study, and constructive, active hobbies.

If the nontypical behavior is not pertinent to the research questions, the regimented pattern of observations will redirect the researcher from the distracting behaviors and back to those being studied.

Roger Pielke, Jr., the environmental studies professor at the University of Colorado and a reviewer of the report, wrote in a blog post that debates about Nisbet's calculations of spending for or against the bill distracted from the important core finding:

As I will discuss in Parts II and III of the Decision Making Under Climate Uncertainty series (I will get back to that soon I hope), there are a lot of other types of studies and analyses that climate scientists might be doing to support decision making, that the current focus of the IPCC is arguably distracting from.

As a recent study from the University of Bristol documented, climate scientists have been so distracted and intimidated by the relentless campaign against them that they tend to avoid any statements that might get them labeled «alarmists,» retreating into a world of charts and data.

The Carbon Neutral Myth Offset Indulgences for your Climate Sins, launched today by Carbon Trade Watch, a project of the Amsterdam - based Transnational Institute, draws on extensive research and case studies to argue that: * Offset companies breed complacency by selling peace of mind to consumers, offering up a form of greenwash that distracts from the serious task of tackling unsustainable consumption patterns and business practices;

an attempt to distract attention from the study's remarkably close confirmation of others» results.

The researchers from all of the studies above found that distracted walkers took one to two seconds longer to cross the street and they also failed to look both ways before they leapt into the roadway with oncoming traffic.

The AAA's Foundation for Traffic Safety used researchers from the University of Utah to study the effects of infotainment systems on distracted driving.

Texas may not have any rules regulating the use of infotainment system but the inference from the AAA study is that the use of these systems could be a major cause of distracted driving accidents.

In fact, a recent study shows that about 1,500 pedestrians are treated in emergency rooms every year because they are looking at their cell phones while they are walking and are distracted from what is ahead.

From studies conducted in 2009 by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, distracted driving was the cause of 16 % of fatal crashes and 20 % of injury crashes.

The study unleashed some disturbing results, suggesting that roadside workers continue to face danger from distracted, speeding motorists.

There is mounting evidence from naturalistic studies that suggest today's drivers are engaging in an increasing array of distracting secondary tasks.

A 2007 study from the Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) found that both novice and experienced drivers were slower to detect hazards while distracted.

Out of nearly 1,700 videos of teen drivers taken from in - vehicle event recorders, distracted driving (including cell phone use and interactions with passengers) was a factor in nearly 58 % of all crashes studied.

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Rummel and van Gog note that several studies have determined that students sometimes become distracted by who is modeling an example, detracting from their ability to learn from that example.

The responses regarding the parents were irrelevant for this study but were included to distract the participants from the research question.

As in our study the participants answered each item four times (sibling, romantic partner, and, to distract the participants from the purpose of this study with regard to mother and father), it seems to be sufficient to rely on shorter scales or our attachment hierarchy scale.

The study found the most distracting systems belonged to the Mazda 6, followed by Microsoft's Cortana system, and cars from from Hyundai, Chrysler, Nissan and Volkswagen.