... in Alansari, 2004) cognitive style is a person's typical or habitual mode of problem-solving, thinking, perceiving, and remembering, whereas another study defines cognitive style as the way an individual filters and processes stimuli depending upon his or her environment (Harvey, 1963, cited in Alansari, 2004). Two types of attention have been considered. Selective attention is the ability to attend and process a single stimulus and disregard all other stimuli or inputs. Divided attention is the ability to attend to and process more than one stimulus or input at the same time. According to Broadbent's model of attention, all information comes through a single channel and there is a filter early in the system that screens out all unwanted information. He maintained that the information to be attended to is selected on the basis of gross physical characteristics (voice, pitch, colour), and not on the basis of meaning. He believed that attention ...

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