The phrase "attention hypothesis" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to psychology, cognitive science, or education, particularly when discussing theories about how attention affects learning or perception.
Example: "The attention hypothesis suggests that focused attention is crucial for effective learning and memory retention."
Alternatives: "focus theory" or "attention theory".
According to the scattered attention hypothesis, media multitasking hastens the depletion of the attentional resource, consequently diminishing performance on the primary task.
This is consistent with the motivated selective attention hypothesis.
Research is more consistent with the scattered attention hypothesis than the trained attention hypothesis (van der Schuur et al., 2015).
Overall, this body of research regarding in-class multitasking affirms ideas purported by the bottleneck theory of attention as well as the scattered attention hypothesis, and presents evidence against the trained attention hypothesis.
Nevertheless, examination of distractor filtering in multitaskers of various frequencies presents a difference in performance, pointing to the potential validity of the trained attention hypothesis (Cain & Mitroff, 2011).
According to the scattered attention hypothesis (van dur Schuur et al., 2015) media multitasking negatively affects cognitive control through distraction from the primary activity.
Van dur Schuur and colleagues (van dur Schuur et al., 2015) suggest two opposing consequences of media multitasking with regards to cognitive control, which they referred to as the scattered attention and trained attention hypotheses.
This contrapositive relationship between DPC and VPC is consistent with the thrust of the domain-general, dual-attention hypothesis or the internal versus external processing hypothesis for the DMN (Corbetta and Shulman 2002; Buckner et al. 2008) and is less consistent with any of the domain-specific approaches.
If the attention mechanism hypothesis does not explain this pattern, what does?
Figure 1 illustrates the privileged-loop mechanism that is consistent with this attention mechanism hypothesis.
The experiments reported here tested the attention mechanism hypothesis by eliminating this confound.
