There is no such thing as voluntary attention sustained for more than a few seconds at a time. What is called sustained voluntary attention is a repetition of successive efforts which bring back the topic to the mind. Psychology - الصفحة 224بواسطة William James - 1892 - عدد الصفحات: 478عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| P. Naur - 1995 - عدد الصفحات: 388
...non-voluntary, effortless; or /) Active and voluntary. Voluntary attention is always derived. ... [I 416-420] There is no such thing as voluntary attention sustained for more than a few seconds at a time. ... [I 420-421] No one can possibly attend continuously to an object that does not change. ... [I 421-422]... | |
| John Philip Jones - 1998 - عدد الصفحات: 372
...to attend to an object except for the sake of some remote interest which the effort will serve"; and "There is no such thing as voluntary attention sustained...successive efforts which bring back the topic to the mind. No one can possibly attend continuously to an object that does not change." t James's distinction between... | |
| Sam Horn - 2001 - عدد الصفحات: 370
...and actions. The next question, of course, is "How do we manage that?" Fundamentals of ConZentration What is called sustained voluntary attention is a repetition of successive efforts which brings back the topic to this mind. —William James We learn to sustain attention just like we learn... | |
| Noel Carroll - 2008 - عدد الصفحات: 448
...observation when he writes, "No one can possibly attend continuously to an object that does not change";21 "what is called sustained voluntary attention is a...successive efforts which bring back the topic to the mind";22 and the "conditio sine qua non of sustained attention to a given topic of thought is that... | |
| C. O. Evans - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 248
...qualification. And the next statement of James's is also one which would fit in with Ribot's position : There is no such thing as voluntary attention sustained for more than a few seconds at a time.* James's contention is that if we seem to be voluntarily attending for more than a few seconds this... | |
| Edward Aloysius Pace, Thomas Edward Shields - 1912 - عدد الصفحات: 492
...conscious of the words of Professor James, which are especially true in the case of the young child: "There is no such thing as voluntary attention sustained for more than a few seconds at a time; voluntary attention is a repetition of successive efforts which bring back the topic to the mind. '... | |
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