They'd say, 'Look, whenever we go to the pub, you end up talking to people who come up to you and then the night's gone.' So I just thought, 'Oh, bollocks, I'll stop going out.'" It was the extraneous attention that partly killed off Burke's enthusiasm for acting, more than the job itself.
Avoid other gimmicky tricks like capitalizing in the middle of words, adding extraneous "attention words" into your title, or attempting to use a ultra-popular name or phrase that is not connected to your item.
Designers should try to minimize the extraneous load by paying attention to how learning can be optimized through effective design [42].
The lack of extraneous diversion means that the attention is drawn to their slowly building, occasionally oddball songs.
A compensatory cerebral response appeared to be elicited during sleep restriction [ 11] that may have helped focus attention and suppressed extraneous mental processes [ 5], resulting in relatively preserved performance.
This appears to be partly because of difficulty either sustaining attention or modulating attentional fluctuations that occur over time or in protecting such time from interference by extraneous stimuli [ 3, 18- 20].
Presenting information as learning objectives has two key advantages: 1) it protects the validity of assessment items for future use, and 2) the format also has the potential to encourage deeper learning; drawing the learner's attention away from the extraneous contextual detail of assessment questions, and directing their reference to the learning objectives.
Applying a basal letter-learning task related to the process of working memory updating, intrinsic cognitive load (by varying task complexity), extraneous cognitive load (via inducing split-attention demands) and germane cognitive load (by varying the presence of schemata) were manipulated within a 3 × 2 × 2-factorial full repeated-measures design.
In a letter sent on Friday to Judge Shira A. Scheindlin, the lawyer, Albert Y . Dayan wrote that "the verdicts were tainted by extraneous prejudicial information that came to the attention of a juror or jurors".
And once the artists have selected an important element, they are better at focusing their attention on it and ignoring extraneous details nearby.
For example, numerous studies have theorized that one of the reasons why divestitures might be positively associated with divesting firm performance is that these deals improve the focus of managerial attention within those companies, by removing extraneous businesses that are dissipating that attention in the first place (e.g., Markides 1992, 1995; Daley et al. 1997).
