Physical Education A-Level
Attention and cognitive control
What Attention and cognitive control means in Physical Education A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Attention and cognitive control
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The central executive controls attention and coordinates the slave systems rather than acting as a store.
Topics that use Attention and cognitive control
- General information processing model, to include: (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Central executive
- Central processing and memory
- Decision making
- Extrinsic feedback
- Feedback
- Information overload
- Information processing
- Input
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