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  2. Pseudolistening - Wikipedia

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    Individuals who are pseudo-listening may include minimal encouragers to compensate for their non-listening, such as nodding their heads, looking at the speaker, smiling at the appropriate times, and displaying other aspects of paying attention, so it may be difficult at times to distinguish between active listening and pseudo-listening.

  3. Mind-wandering - Wikipedia

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    Mind-wandering is broadly defined as thoughts unrelated to the task at hand. Mind-wandering consists of thoughts that are task-unrelated and stimulus-independent. [1] [2] This can be in the form of three different subtypes: positive constructive daydreaming, guilty fear of failure, and poor attentional control.

  4. Distraction - Wikipedia

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    Distraction is caused by: the lack of ability to pay attention; lack of interest in the object of attention; or the great intensity, novelty or attractiveness of something other than the object of attention. Distractions come from both external sources, and internal sources.

  5. Inattentional blindness - Wikipedia

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    The following criteria are required to classify an event as an inattentional blindness episode: 1) the observer must fail to notice a visual object or event, 2) the object or event must be fully visible, 3) observers must be able to readily identify the object if they are consciously perceiving it, [3] and 4) the event must be unexpected and the failure to see the object or event must be due ...

  6. Absent-mindedness - Wikipedia

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    Absent-mindedness is a mental state wherein a person is forgetfully inattentive. [1] It is the opposite mental state of mindfulness.. Absent-mindedness is often caused by things such as boredom, sleepiness, rumination, distraction, or preoccupation with one's own internal monologue.

  7. Attenuation theory - Wikipedia

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    Please help improve it to make it understandable to non-experts, without removing the technical details. ( July 2017 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Attenuation theory , also known as Treisman's attenuation model , is a model of selective attention proposed by Anne Treisman , and can be seen as a revision of Donald Broadbent's ...

  8. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    (v.) to turn the attention to or refer to something [9] [4] [5] [6] [8] advocate (n.) Scottish, also Isle of Man, Channel Islands or South African, lawyer who appears in higher courts (rest of UK: barrister) someone who supports or speaks for a particular position generic term for a lawyer (v.) to recommend or support air marshal

  9. Listening - Wikipedia

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    Listening is the act of paying attention to sounds. [1] It includes listening to the sounds of nature, listening to music, and perhaps most importantly, interpersonal listening, i.e. listening to other human beings. When listening to another person, one hears what they are saying and tries to understand what it means. [2]