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Attention-grabbing

Deutsch: Aufmerksamkeitserregend / Español: Captación de Atención / Português: Captura de Atenção / Français: Captation de l'Attention / Italiano: Cattura dell'Attenzione

Attention-grabbing in the context of psychology refers to stimuli or actions that effectively capture and hold an individual's focus or awareness. This concept is significant in understanding how certain features of the environment or aspects of communication demand and sustain human attention over others. Attention-grabbing mechanisms are crucial for cognitive processing, influencing how information is perceived, processed, and remembered.

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Attentional blink task

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

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Attentional capacity

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

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Attentional Capacity

Attentional Capacity refers to a hypothetical construct referring to the amount of information that can be processed at a time.

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Attentional capture

Attentional capture refers to the ability of motion to attract attention. Likewise, Attentional capture is a phenomenon in which certain stimuli seem to "pop out” and require a perso

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Attentional Narrowing

Attentional Narrowing refers to an apparent reduction in the amount of environmental information being processed during hypnosis.

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Attentional overload

Attentional overload refers to a stressful Condition caused when Sensory stimulation, information, and social contacts make excessive demands on attention.

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Attentional processes

Attentional processes refers to the processes that determine what is attended to and therefore what is learned through observation.

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