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information and cognitive processes that are most salient at a given moment.
Attention is a mental process that requires metnal resources to direct and focus mental
processes.
These mental resources are limited, the more attention one task requires, the less
available for performing others.
Divided attention – pating attention to more than one thing at one time. This ability is
limited, which has an impact on how much we can process at one
Selective attnetion – focusing on specific objects and filtering out others. The ability to
attend to one source of information while ignoring or exluding ongoing messages around
us.
Cockatail party effect – ability to listen selectively to one conversation during a party
while ignoring the nose going on around you. Imagine you are talking to some people are
at a party. Suddenly someone says your name in another part of the room.
You are able to immediately detect this, and switch your attention to that part of the room
Early selective attention : filter is bottleneck that prevents ststem exceeding capacity by
blocking some input. Filter based on physical characteristics of signal : location of
sources, pitch, loudness and speed. Only filtered material is analysed for meaning.
Treisman rejected the early slection notion embodied in Broadbent’s theory. She claimed
that all imcoming messages receive some amount of low level analysis, including the
analysis of the physical characteristics of the message. When the unattended message
yield no useful or important information, those messages were attentuated, they are
weakened in their importance to ongoing processing.
Hemineglect
A disruption or decreased ability to look at something in the (often) left field of vision
and pay attention to it. Thus, hemineglect is a disorder of attention in which one half of
the perceptual world is neglected to some degree and cannot be attended to as completely
or accurately as normal
ADHD
There are three types of ADHD, inattentive type, impulsive and hyeractive. And there are
combinations or two or more types as well/
Inattention has chronic problems with sustained attention, poor concerntration and
attentin to detail, having difficulties finishing and organising events or engaging in
tedious activities or requiring sustainged mental effort.