Attention and Developmental quiz

What is attention?

• Attention is the focusing of mental reasources on a subject.

• Getting distracted really easily

• Being able to read for a long period of time

____ is the focusing on a specific aspect of an experience while ignoring the ones that are irrelevant

• Divided Attention

• Executive Attention

• Selective Attention

• Sustained Attention

Example of Selective Attention would be

• Being able to write a 15 page essay

• Focusing on one voice in a larger crowd

• Changing your attention every few minutes

• Dancing to music

_____ involves concentrating on more than one activity at a time.

• Selective Attention

• Executive Attention

• Sustained Attention

• Divided Attention

An example of Divided Attention would be

• Dividing your time to be more efficient

• Listening to music while reading

• Writing a long essay

• Focusing on one voice in a crowd

_____ is the ability to maintain attention overlong periods of time.

• Sustain attention

• Divided attention

• Selective attention

• Executive Attention

An example of sustained attention is

• Pretending to listen to your boss yap

• Listening to music while you work

• Day dreaming a lot

• Be able to listen to a full hour lecture without being distracted

_____ Involves planning actions, allocating attention to goals, detecting and compensating for errors, monitoring progress on tasks, and dealing with difficult circumstances.

• Divided Attention

• Executive Attention

• Selective Attention

• Sustained Attention

An example of Executive attention would be

• Day dreaming

• Becoming the president

• Being able to organize, plan out, and write a 15 page essay

• Listening to a lot of music

True or False: Cognitive development is determined only by a child’s personality

• TRUE

• FALSE