Educational Psychology / Unit 5 EDP 0413 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Selective and Divided Attention
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The idea
Selective attention focuses on one stimulus while ignoring distractions, and it improves from childhood into adolescence; divided attention splits focus across tasks, with limited capacity.
In practice
Young children struggle to filter out classroom noise while listening to a teacher.
Where people slip
Multitasking brings more errors and slower work, as driving while using a phone shows.
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