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Attended stimulus refers to the stimulus that a person is attending to at a given point in time.
Deutsch: Aufmerksamkeit / Español: Atención / Português: Atenção / Français: Attention / Italiano: Attenzione /
Attention refers to the ability to concentrate. The ability to focus selectively on a selected stimulus, sustaining that focus and shifting it at will.
Attention are cognitive resources, mental effort, or concentration devoted to a cognitive process.
Moreover, Attention is defined as the process of seeking out and focusing on stimuli that are of interest in a way that causes these stimuli to become more deeply processed than those that are not receiving our attention. So, Attention refers to the active cognitive processing of a limited amount of information from the vast amount of information available through the senses, in memory and through cognitive processes; focus on a small subset of available stimuli.
Attention and Concentration Control (focusing)
Skill commonly used to help individuals identify their current situation and the relevant stimuli within that situation.
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.