Glossary A

Englisch: Psychological Skills
Attention and Concentration Control (focusing)
Skill commonly used to help individuals identify their current situation and the relevant stimuli within that situation.

Attention Deficit Disorder refers to a chronic, developmental and behavioral disorder that initially manifests in childhood that is characterized by inattention, Distractibility and

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) refers to a chronic disorder that initially manifests in childhood and is characterized by hyperactivity, impulsivity, and/or inattention. Not all of those affected by ADHD manifest all three (3) behavioral categories.

Attention hypothesis of automatization refers to the proposal that attention is needed during a learning phase of a new task.

Attention only control group refers to a control group whose members meet regularly with a clinician but receive no "active" treatment.

Attention span refers to the capacity for sustaining attention to a particular stimulus or activity.

Attentional blink task refers to activity in which people attend to two (2) kinds of stimuli and usually ignore one kind that occurs within a short delay after the other one

Attentional capacity refers to the amount of information in short-term memory to which a person can attend.