attentiveness
- noun
- /əˈtɛntɪvnəs/
- Specialized
Examples
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Several procedures to ensure attentiveness to the test stimuli have been used.
Academic text (1991) -
The slides differed sufficiently to gauge subject attentiveness in the recognition tests.
Academic text (1991) -
The researchers hypothesize that reference desk personnel may become more alert when traffic picks up at the physical desk, thus resulting in better virtual response times as well, due simply to increased attentiveness.
Academic text (2014) -
Each of the scenarios contained unique details pertaining to the physical characteristics of the partner, setting, and statements made by the persons depicted in order to assess attentiveness via the recognition tests.
Academic text (1991) -
In the normal, straight state, conscious and non-conscious processes give continual attentiveness to many internal and external stimuli, with responses such as awareness, memories, expectancies, and the many associations we have already noted.
Blog text (7) -
The teacher implemented new strategies to improve students' attentiveness during online classes.
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Using eye-tracking technology, researchers measured the attentiveness of participants to key signals in the data.
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A machine learning model's high attentiveness allows it to identify relevant features in large datasets effectively.
Synonyms
Close attention to one subject or activity
A way a computer model focuses on the most important parts of input
A visual map showing which parts of an image most influence a computer program's decision
How Focused
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Attentiveness comes from attend + -ness, with attend and attention meaning 'to give care' or 'to concentrate'. In technology this idea became a way to say how much a system 'pays attention' to the most important parts of its input, so high attentiveness means the model focuses more on the key pieces of data.