Question

What is the process of attention? What is the purpose of attention in cognition?

Answer 1

Attention is a cognitive process where one chooses the information that they like to collect from the stimuli present in the environment because people don’t select all the stimuli present in the environment. It’s also called selective attention which means selecting what one wants to select from the environment.

Attention is the most talked about topic in almost all the fields such as education, military, sports etc. It’s really essential for someone to succeed in any field that they choose. Without attention, understanding the environment, collecting information, using them effectively will become very difficult. One’s success in this world depends on the amount of attention they have.