vigilance
psychology
Also known as: sustained attention, sustained vigilance
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- In attention: Sustained attention: vigilance
Sustained attention, or vigilance, as it is more often called, refers to the state in which attention must be maintained over time. Often this is to be found in some form of “watchkeeping” activity when an observer, or listener, must continuously monitor a situation…
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