Question

Kelly is participating in an attention study. She is asked to fixate on a cross in the middle of the screen and watch for a word to appear in place of the cross. When the word appears she is using ______ attention to perceive it

Answer 1

Kelly is using the covert attention as well as overt attention to perceive the words as she was asked to focus on the screen to see the words.

What is Overt and covert attention?

Overt attention refers to build a focus on the objects by moving the head and eyes to look at the location they are coming from.

Covert attention refers to fix the focus on objects or words without moving head and eyes. It means to be concentrated at the objects only not on location.

Overt is the very obvious attention that everyone use to follow.

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