selective attention
Britishnoun
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Previous research had shown pigeons learned how to solve complex categorization tasks that human ways of thinking -- like selective attention and explicit rule use -- would not be useful in solving.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2023
Reading reality TV requires selective attention — or inattention, more to the point.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2017
Such selective attention is common in high-stress situations.
From Slate ● Mar. 3, 2017
This kind of selective attention to facts is wearily familiar to longtime observers of the U.N.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2016
But in each of these cases the action of selective attention is comparatively involuntary, passive, and even unconscious, not having anything of the character of a conscious striving to compass some end.
From Illusions A Psychological Study by Sully, James
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