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Rummel, Jan; Hagemann, Dirk; Steindorf, Lena; Schubert, Anna-Lena – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2022
Mind wandering is often defined as the phenomenon of one's attention drifting away from the current activity toward inner thoughts and feelings. In the laboratory, mind wandering is most frequently assessed with thought reports that are collected while people perform some ongoing activity. It is not clear, however, inasmuch the resulting…
Descriptors: Attention, Influences, Activities, Reliability
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Meier, Matt E.; Smeekens, Bridget A.; Silvia, Paul J.; Kwapil, Thomas R.; Kane, Michael J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
The association between working memory capacity (WMC) and the antisaccade task, which requires subjects to move their eyes and attention away from a strong visual cue, supports the claim that WMC is partially an attentional construct (Kane, Bleckley, Conway, & Engle, 2001; Unsworth, Schrock, & Engle, 2004). Specifically, the…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Individual Differences, Reaction Time, Cues
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Unsworth, Nash; Brewer, Gene A.; Spillers, Gregory J. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
The present study examined individual differences in everyday cognitive failures assessed by diaries. A large sample of participants completed various cognitive ability measures in the laboratory. Furthermore, a subset of these participants also recorded everyday cognitive failures (attention, retrospective memory, and prospective memory failures)…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Individual Differences, Short Term Memory, Diaries
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Unsworth, Nash; McMillan, Brittany D.; Brewer, Gene A.; Spillers, Gregory J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2012
The present study examined individual differences in everyday attention failures. Undergraduate students completed various cognitive ability measures in the laboratory and recorded everyday attention failures in a diary over the course of a week. The majority of attention failures were failures of distraction or mind wandering in educational…
Descriptors: Attention, Failure, Undergraduate Students, Individual Differences
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Heitz, Richard P.; Engle, Randall W. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2007
A time-course analysis of visual attention focusing (attentional constraint) was conducted in groups of participants with high and low working memory spans, a dimension the authors have argued reflects the ability to control attention. In 4 experiments, participants performed the Eriksen flanker paradigm under increasing levels of speed stress.…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Memory, Attention, Individual Differences
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Irwin-Chase, Holly; Burns, Barbara – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2000
Two experiments examined age differences in children's dual-task performance. Findings indicated that when capacity for single-task performance was controlled, age differences between second and fifth graders did not exist in performance of dual-tasks of equal priority. When tasks had different priorities, only fifth graders could differentially…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Attention Control, Child Development
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Zeaman, David – Intelligence, 1978
General intelligence may set structural feature limitations on three aspects of selective attention: direction, adjustability, and breadth. Data, theory, and methods bearing on this hypothesis were reviewed from the domain of visual discrimination learning. (Author/BW)
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Control, Attention Span, Discrimination Learning
Geller, Sanford E.; And Others – 1975
This study investigated the relationship between visual attending and learning in a group of 16 Head Start children from low income families. Attending behavior (defined as "eyes oriented towards the teacher and/or teaching materials for a full 5-second interval") was measured for each child during a 10-minute story period on four…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attention, Attention Control, Contingency Management