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attentional

attentional

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About paying attention
  • adjective
  • /əˈtɛnʃənl/
  • Specialized
: atencional
  • Mindfulness exercises can improve your attentional control and enhance your ability to concentrate.

Well, maybe, just maybe, they are experiencing more attentional blinks than people who do not have ADHD.

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Examples

  • In a busy classroom, the teacher noticed that maintaining attentional focus was challenging for the students.

  • The experiment studied how different conditions affected attentional processes during cognitive tasks.

  • Further research is clearly needed on the interaction between expertise and attentional focus in music.

    Academic text (2011)
  • The effects of attentional focus are not independent of the skill levels of learners.

    Academic text (2011)
  • And I had a question about how an understanding of attentional processes informs this model.

  • The shorter reaction times indicated reduced attentional demands in the external focus condition.

    Academic text (2011)
  • The important variable seems to be how much attentional capacity is utilized.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Once processing becomes automatized, experts can perform without drawing down attentional resources.

    Academic text (2013)
  • Therefore, one may not expect that attentional manipulation would affect motivation.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Learning where to devote limited attentional resources is an obvious challenge for novices.

    Academic text (2011)

Surface Forms

attentional positive

Morphology

attentional = attention (transparent) = attend + tion + al

The adjective is transparently formed from 'attention' plus '-al', meaning 'relating to attention'.

Etymology

The word attentional comes from attention, which has the parts ad- 'to' and tendere 'to stretch' and is the same root as attend, so attention is like 'stretching' your mind toward something. That's why attentional describes things that involve paying close attention.