attentional

IPA: ʌtˈɛnʃʌnʌɫ

Examples of "attentional" in Sentences

The current growth of multitasking, for instance, may help select for just such attentional agility.
Yet attentional restlessness can serve people well in environments that reward sensitivity to new stimuli.
As parents, Dr. Thompson claims that there are four things we can do to help children gain good attentional abilities:
Evidence suggests that such attentional lapses are an important contributor to the memory difficulties experienced by older adults.
Another issue is that older people can be susceptible to attentional lapses, whereby a simple lack of attention during key moments can lead to forgetfulness.
With things that don't fit what we call the attentional-control set, you can look directly at them, getting stimulation on your retina, and yet they won't reach your awareness. "
It is also involved in a variety of complex behaviors, such as attentional focusing (the ability to concentrate attention on environmental cues relevant to the task in hand, or to switch attention from one task to another).
As a footnote to the above, you might be interested in this video clip, in which an educator (Howard Rheingold) grapples with the notion that learners now feel “entitled” to check their email, tweet, google, text, etc – and that the classroom is a “marketplace” in which different attentional foci must compete.