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Attention Selective aspects of perception, functioning such that at any time an organism focuses on certain features of the environment to the relative exclusion of others.
1. If actors don’t (or are unable) to pay attention, information “on offer” will not be acquired; 2. People have limitations on their ability to process information, so if, for example, one is at a party and surrounded by multiple simultaneous conversations it is almost certainly the case that not all of this available information will be processed; 3. Individual differences (as well as situational pressures) will influence what different actors attend to, and how intensely they attend to it, at any given time. (see also: Selective Attention, perception, memory)
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