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- Dictionarydistracted/dɪˈstraktɪd/
adjective
- 1. unable to concentrate because one is preoccupied by something worrying or unpleasant: "Charlotte seemed too distracted to give him much attention"
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3 days ago · Attention or focus, is the concentration of awareness on some phenomenon to the exclusion of other stimuli. [1] . It is the selective concentration on discrete information, either subjectively or objectively.
5 days ago · Staring off during class or doodling in your notebook instead of paying attention. But oftentimes, distractions and daydreams can be restorative or even inspiring. Here are some examples of when distractions can be beneficial. Your mind needs a break.
5 days ago · Of 1,200 US employees and employers, 79% of workers said they can’t go a full hour without getting distracted from work; 59% couldn’t go just 30 minutes without encountering a diversion.
5 days ago · Selective attention is defined by the American Psychological Association as “concentration on certain stimuli in the environment and not on others, enabling important stimuli to be distinguished from peripheral or incidental ones.”
3 days ago · The concept of ‘distraction’ is usually defined as something that prevents someone from concentrating on something else. The politics of distraction have been explored across disciplines and have become particularly relevant in today’s era of neoliberalism, neonationalism and precarity.
4 days ago · (Rafael Elias/Getty Images) Do you find that you daydream a lot? Are you often sluggish and tend to disengage easily when doing a task? You might have cognitive disengagement syndrome, or CDS. CDS was first described by psychologists in the 1960s and 1970s when they noticed that some people display these traits more persistently than others.
5 days ago · Summary. Student attention is limited and so we should be thinking careful about how to optimise it. Displays can be a distraction, but the size of this effect is generally small. And so, we should probably focus on tackling bigger distractions first, such as poor behaviour. Little updates 🥕.
