The first is the ability to resist distractions or delay gratification to finish a job: to finish the book report before turning on the television.
For example, in a study of children's moral development, the American psychologists Hugh Hartshorne and Mark A. May in 1928 placed 10- to 13-year-old children in situations that gave them the opportunity to lie, steal, or cheat; to spend money on themselves or on other children; and to yield to or resist distractions.
Therefore, strong repair should resist distraction, allowing early rehabilitation and promoting tendon healing [8, 17].
We examined fifteen patients with chronic schizophrenia and fifteen controls using paired tasks designed to measure four hypothetical aspects of attentional control: the ability to focus attention, to resist distraction, to shift attention, and to divide attention.
The second subtest, Number Detection, measures selectiveness and capacity to resist distraction under time pressure.
Individual differences in working memory capacity (WMC) are typically measured with complex span tasks (combining recall of word lists with simultaneous distractor activities) and are assumed to reflect differences in people's ability to stay focused on what is relevant and resist distraction (Engle, 2002).
The present study sought to extend this controlled attention perspective, by testing the general hypothesis that WM performance would be inversely related to caregiver ratings of overt behavioural inattention, such that children with better WM performance would be able to resist distraction on tasks and hence have lower ratings of behavioural inattention than children with poor WM performance.
The results in the RAVLT illustrate that patients with schizophrenia had difficulties learning new verbal information (RAVLTA1-5, and RAVLTATOT), to resist distraction from earlier learning (RAVLTB), to immediately recall recently learned information (RAVLTA6), and to recall verbal information after a delay (RAVLTA7).
My father always resisted distractions.
Singing a bedtime song or a cleanup song can keep children focused on the chore at hand, resisting distractions.
Monks in saffron robes meditate facing inward to the stupa, perhaps trying to resist the distractions of a beautiful sunrise or an erupting volcano.
