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Attention

Attention – one of forms of the organization of mental activity; nervously mental process providing concentration of cerebration of the person in some direction, which is followed by the organism device for the best perception of certain irritations and the most exact response to them.

Types of attention:

  • Active – for emergence and which maintenance intellectual and strong-willed activity of an individual is required;
  • Passive – an orientation of which on this or that object has no communication with any purposes, intentions or tasks and is caused only by features of the object (brightness, singularity, novelty and so on); the physiological mechanism of attention passive is the orientative reflex.
 
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