Selective attention is the ability to focus on important factors and ignore meaningless information to improve performance. What is this concept called?

Selective attention is the ability to focus on important factors and ignore meaningless information to improve performance. What is this concept called?

• A. Selective attention
• B. Broad attention
• C. Multitasking
• D. Peripheral attention

Answer: (A)

Selective attention is the ability to pick out task-relevant cues and ignore irrelevant information to perform at a higher level. In sports and physical education, this means focusing on meaningful factors like the ball, a defender’s movement, or a coach’s signal while filtering out crowd noise and other distractions. The description in the prompt fits this idea exactly: concentrating on important factors and letting meaningless information pass by to improve performance. Other terms describe different patterns of attention: broad attention involves scanning a wide area for many cues, multitasking means handling several tasks at once (which can dilute focus), and peripheral attention refers to awareness of things outside the central focus rather than actively filtering distractions to enhance a specific performance.

Selective attention is the ability to pick out task-relevant cues and ignore irrelevant information to perform at a higher level. In sports and physical education, this means focusing on meaningful factors like the ball, a defender’s movement, or a coach’s signal while filtering out crowd noise and other distractions. The description in the prompt fits this idea exactly: concentrating on important factors and letting meaningless information pass by to improve performance. Other terms describe different patterns of attention: broad attention involves scanning a wide area for many cues, multitasking means handling several tasks at once (which can dilute focus), and peripheral attention refers to awareness of things outside the central focus rather than actively filtering distractions to enhance a specific performance.