Attention and concentration

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What is attention?
Process of focusing ones awareness on a narrow aspect of experience
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What is concentration?
The ability to remain focus on relevant environmental cues
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What are the 4 components of concentration?
1. Selectively attending to important information. 2. Maintaining attention over time. 3. Situational awareness. 4. Shifting attention.
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What are the 3 theories of attentional focus?
Attentional selectivity, attentional capacity and attentional alertness
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What are the 3 common errors which attentional selectivity?
Not only focusing on important cues, distraction and focusing to narrowly so missing some cues
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What are the types of attentional focus?
Broad/narrow and internal/external
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What would be a narrow external attentional focus?
Looking exclusively at one or two environmental cues for example the 2 defenders
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