{"id":9013,"date":"2019-05-22T16:13:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/selective_attention\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:13:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:13:58","slug":"selective_attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/selective_attention\/","title":{"rendered":"Selective attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attention is the selective enhancement of some aspects of behaviour over other aspects. Selective attention specifically refers to the &#8216;selective&#8217; aspect of attention that focuses behavior on specific tasks. Another definition derived from information processing theory is:&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230; control of information processing so that sensory input is perceived or remembered better in one situation than another.&#8221; (p. 4 in Schneider, W., &amp; Shiffrin, R.M. Controlled and automatic human information processing.&nbsp;1. Detection search and attention. <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">Psychological Review<\/span>, 1977, <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">84<\/span>, 1-66). Accordingly, the resources for selective attention are assumed to be limited. This is because processing capacity is overloaded in numerous situations that a subset of information arriving must be given special attention\u201aaa (p. 4). Two types of selective attention deficits are identified:&nbsp;Divided attention deficits when attention has to be allocated to additional inputs (e.g., attempting to follow two conversations at the same time, or performing a concurrent secondary task), and focused attention deficits when attention is distracted by irrelevant inputs (e.g., attempting to listen to a conversation without being distracted by other conversations)<\/p>\n<p>. See Attention, Continuous performance, Focused attention, Sustained attention<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attention is the selective enhancement of some aspects of behaviour over other aspects. Selective attention specifically refers to the &#8216;selective&#8217; aspect of attention that focuses behavior on specific tasks. Another definition derived from information processing theory is:&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230; control of information processing so that sensory input is perceived or remembered better in one situation than another.&#8221; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/selective_attention\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Selective attention&#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-9013","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\/9013","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=9013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}