What is attention? Explain the two aspects of attention: executive attention and sustained attention.
What will be an ideal response?
Attention is defined as the focusing of mental resources on select information. Young children especially make advances in two aspects of attention-executive attention and sustained attention. Executive attention involves action planning, allocating attention to goals, error detection and compensation, monitoring progress on tasks, and dealing with novel or difficult circumstances. Sustained attention is focused and extended engagement with an object, task, event, or other aspect of the environment.
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a. mimic neurons b. optical neurons c. mirror neurons d. osmotic neurons
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a. increases b. decreases c. eliminates d. maintains
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A) selective attention B) top-down processing C) sensory adaptation D) transduction
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the activity of the immune system? a. Epinephrine b. T cells c. Norepinephrine d. Glucocorticoids e. Natural killer cells