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Although there may be some benefits to these lapses of attention (e.g., attentional capture towards a threat stimulus, problem solving an unrelated task), for the most part these attention failures are seen as unwanted breakdowns of our attentional system.
The discrepancy in performance depending on the approach used also underlines the need for further studies on the nature of attention failures and their underlying mechanisms.
As such, attention failures have been linked to both minor and major accidents (Broadbent, Cooper, FitzGerald, & Parkes, 1982; Reason & Mycielska, 1982), as well as to professional (Reason, 1990), and educational difficulties (Brown, 1927; Lindquist & McLean, 2011).
Inadequate equipment design (e.g. driver safety systems) was frequently identified as an organisational influence and possibly contributed to the relatively large number of incidents/accidents resulting from attention failures.
Slips (observable actions and often associated with attention failures), Lapses (internal events, often involving memory failure).
Execution failures (plan is adequate to achieve outcome, but failure in execution): Slips (observable actions and often associated with attention failures), Lapses (internal events, often involving memory failure).
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Difficulties in the fast shifting of attentional focus can contribute to an increase in joint attention failure.
Case studies contrasting the different patterns of attention failure shown by different unilateral neglect patients are an important source of data here.
When we are paying attention, failure happens much of the time, in small and large ways - an email I sent with a spelling error; a false assumption I made about something my wife said; eating that piece of chocolate I had decided to avoid.
Medical errors, adverse events, and attention failure have been noted in interns working extended shifts (those greater than 24 hours) [ 6].
For example, failure to be fully present may cause patients to feel unworthy of their care provider's complete attention; failure to value the intrinsic worth of the client may cause patients to feel devalued or unimportant; and failure to be emotionally resilient may lead patients to withhold emotionally evocative material as a means of protecting the clinician.
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