... to focus on certain aspects of the environment that you consider important or interesting and to flexibly control this information. Attention includes your abilities to receive information, to select what is relevant from the incoming information, to stick with and complete an activity and to change direction when appropriate. Attention is the basis for all higher-order cognitive processes (memory, communication, etc) that enables you to successfully complete educational activities. As students our attention is likely to be attracted to such things like seeing/hearing the unexpected, complex, intense, emotional stimulus, and stimuli which have personal significance to you. By applying more attention to our studies we are processing more information than we would if you were, say, having a conversation. Improving attending skills can positively impact performance in note taking, class participation, reading, following directions, completing assignments, group learning, exam preparation, and exam taking. Most tasks require a combination of conscious and ...

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