Selective Attention

One concept. Four tiers of command. Which do you speak?

Category: Cognition

Foundational Lexiconnoticing what matters
Executive Parlanceattention filtering
Scholarly Discourseperceptual selection
Babel ZenithSelective Attention
Origin: Cognitive Psychology

Etymology & Meaning

Focusing on certain stimuli while ignoring others.

In the Boardroom

Seeing what you're looking for, missing everything else.

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