Relationship of Attention and Cognitive Ability
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What is the function relationship between attention and cognitive ability?
Describe their relationship and please describe the concept of attention and whether attention can be consciously distributed to tasks.
Provide key points and I can elaborate on the rest, also please use a few life examples so I can relate to my topic.
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This solution addresses the relationship of attention and cognitive ability. It provides examples to illustrate the topic. Additionally, this solution includes three reference sources for further research.
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Attention is focusing on one specific thing or task such as reading a book or listening to a lecture. In order to focus attention one must be able to tune out other distractions such as conversations or background noise in a room.
Cognitive ability is how a person understands and acts in the world. Cognitive abilities are skills and abilities that we use everyday. Any task can be broken down into different cognitive skills. Something as basic as answering a door. One has to be able ...
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