meta-attention

noun

Awareness and control of one's attentional processes.

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Meanings

nounmeta-attention (uncountable)
  1. uncountablehuman sciencesAwareness and control of one's attentional processes.

    It was also determined whether, given the assumption of the existence of such a pattern, meta-attention would be correlated with academic achievement.

    1982, Ann B. Loper, Daniel P. Hallahan, The Journal of General Psychology, volume 106, number 1, →DOI, page 27

Origin

From meta- + attention.

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