{"id":7319,"date":"2019-05-22T15:55:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/attentional_flexibility\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:55:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:55:35","slug":"attentional_flexibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/attentional_flexibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Attentional flexibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The capacity to shift the focus of attention from one task to another. &nbsp;This involves the ability to initiate, focus, sustain, inhibit and transfer attention. &nbsp;This capacity is typically measured by performance on card sorting tasks, in which the sorting rule is periodically changed; impaired performance on such tasks can involve difficulties in disengaging from the previously correct rule or in establishing and attending to the new rule.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"executive_function_-ef-\">Executive function (EF)<\/a>, Wisconsin Card Sorting Task (WCST)<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The capacity to shift the focus of attention from one task to another. &nbsp;This involves the ability to initiate, focus, sustain, inhibit and transfer attention. &nbsp;This capacity is typically measured by performance on card sorting tasks, in which the sorting rule is periodically changed; impaired performance on such tasks can involve difficulties in disengaging from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/attentional_flexibility\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Attentional flexibility&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}