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In regards to attention, what role does distraction play? How are we able to limit its influence?

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An explanation of how we can limit the effects of distraction on attention.

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Attention basically refers to the way we process information in our environment. Various stimuli take place in our daily lives, yet, we are able to focus on one thing at a specific time. For example, we may be sitting in an office where the phone is ringing, people are having conversations, the copy machine is running, and yet we manage to put our attention on one specific task while keeping everything else in the background and completing a ...

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