Attention and types of attention

Attention: is a whole psychological doctrine and concept. It means to focus

your mental faculties (mind) to something, it could be an object or objects,
thought, or an action (activity), discriminating the rest of the stimuli; making
concentration unique. All of this with the objective of understanding better
something.
For this process we need the intervention of sensible organs to focus just in
favorable stimuli (you need a physical and mental connection), such as motor,
respiratory or circulatory.
Factors such as personality, education, habits, jobs, temperament, and
pleasures will determine if our focus is set to one thing or another, wich relates
also with motivation. There are also other objective factors such as intensity,
duration, repetition, size and contrast that will also determine the stimulus in
which we will focus.

Types of attention
There are 9 types of clinic application in attention
1. Awake or alert (arousal): the intensity or way to measure how alert you
are.
2. Span: attentional and memory amplitude, and it is based on the number
of stimuli that we can repeat immediately, based also in rhythm.
3. Focal or selective attention: non automatic attention implies this type of
attention and it is related with workmemory.
4. Displacement attention: this works when you focus your attention in one
visual camp and then in another. (You pass from one to another).
5. Serial attention: for cancellation and searching tasks, e.g. letter or
number cancellation test.
6. Dual or dived attention: when your attention is required for simultaneous
tasks, like paying attention in class while typing in the computer the main
ideas of the content.
7. Preparation attention: it requires a neurocognitive process in which you
get prepared for a new task by the selection of mental schemes.
8. Sustained attention: the ability to maintain the attention to different
events for long terms.

9. Inhibition: the ability to avoid or ignore some stimuli in order to pay

attention in the important ones.