...the following statements: " We can attend to the same topic for a considerable length of time. " " There is no such thing as voluntary attention sustained for more than a few seconds at a time. ' ' 486. What, approximately, is the optimal limit of the duration of attention to a given topic in...

...the following statements: " We can attend to the same topic for a considerable length of time. " " There is no such thing as voluntary attention sustained for more than a few seconds at a time." 486. What, approximately, is the optimal limit of the duration of attention to a given topic in kindergarten,...

...careful observation confirms the statement made by Professor James, 1 that 1 Psychology, i., 420. " there is no such thing as voluntary attention sustained...of successive efforts which bring back the topic to mind. The topic once brought back, if a congenial one, develops ... no one can possibly attend continuously...

...two streams, one of which compels the other. We are further told, and that with emphasis, that ' ' there is no such thing as voluntary attention sustained...successive efforts which bring back the topic to the mind." l I can only say that if it be so, in my own case I am not generally conscious of these very ineffective...

...not be true as regards passive attention, it will be generally agreed that James is right in saying,1 "There is no such thing as voluntary attention sustained...is a repetition of successive efforts which bring" the topic back to the mind. The topic once brought back, if a congenial one, develops; and if its development...

...relative to attention are given expression by Prof. James, and bear directly on the advertiser's problem. "There is no such thing as voluntary attention sustained for more than a few seconds at a time." And: "No one can possibly attend continuously to an object that does not change." Ilelmholtz combines...

...attention upon one and the same object we must seek constantly to show him something new about it, and " there is no such thing as voluntary attention sustained for more than a few seconds at a time." Few signs can be devised which are highly interesting in themselves; therefore, the interest must lie...

...that James is right in saying:1 "There is no such thing as voluntary attention [secondary, active] sustained for more than a few seconds at a time. What...is a repetition of successive efforts which bring the topic back to the mind. The topic once brought back, if a congenial one, develops; and if its development...

...that James is right in saying:1 ^There is no such thing as voluntary attention [secondary, active] sustained for more than a few seconds at a, time....is a repetition of successive efforts which bring the topic back tojthe mind.) The topic once brought back, if a congenfal one, develops; and if its...

...secure an attack, or a series of repeated attacks. It cannot carry through the business unaided. " There is no such thing as voluntary attention sustained for more than a few minutes at a time. What is called sustained voluntary attention is a repetition of successive efforts...