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Attention Worksheet

Using the text, Cognition: The Thinking Animal, the University Library, the Internet, and/or other resources, answer the following questions. Your response to each question should be at least 150 words in length.

.1 How do you define the concept of attention?

Willingham (2007) explains attention to "mean the mechanism for continued cognitive processing" (p. 108). One's attention capacity not only varies between person to person but also under different conditions and within various times. The manner in which a person uses attention is restricted because it is responsible for functions in both events that transpire within a person, and what is going on internal as well. In some instances, the emotional state that a person is experiencing...