Everyday Attention Failures: An Individual Differences Investigation

Autor/inn/en	Unsworth, Nash; McMillan, Brittany D.; Brewer, Gene A.; Spillers, Gregory J.
Titel	Everyday Attention Failures: An Individual Differences Investigation
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 38 (2012) 6, S.1765-1772 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
DOI	10.1037/a0028075
Schlagwörter	Attention; Failure; Undergraduate Students; Individual Differences; Cognitive Ability; Short Term Memory; Attention Control; Diaries; Scores; College Entrance Examinations; Georgia; SAT (College Admission Test) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Aufmerksamkeit; Individueller Unterschied; Denkfähigkeit; Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Aufmerksamkeitstest; Diary; Tagebuch; Aufnahmeprüfung
Abstract	The present study examined individual differences in everyday attention failures. Undergraduate students completed various cognitive ability measures in the laboratory and recorded everyday attention failures in a diary over the course of a week. The majority of attention failures were failures of distraction or mind wandering in educational contexts (in class or while studying). Latent variable techniques were used to perform analyses, and the results suggested that individual differences in working memory capacity and attention control were related to some but not all everyday attention failures. Furthermore, everyday attention failures predicted SAT scores and partially accounted for the relation between cognitive abilities and SAT scores. These results provide important evidence for individual differences in everyday attention failures as well as for the ecological validity of laboratory measures of working memory capacity and attention control. (Contains 3 tables, 3 figures, and 2 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10