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applied developmental science
developmental processes
cognitive development
attention (psychology)
Preferred term
theories of attention
Definition
- Every moment of our lives, the world bombards us with a multiplicity of sights and sounds and other information taken in through the senses. These stimuli may be relevant or not to your current cognitive goal, or of such potential importance that, unexpected as the input may be, you must break out of your current goal-directed activities to understand the new input. [Source: Encyclopedia of Perception; Attention: Theories of]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/theories_of_attention
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