Selective Focus Attention is a major process in figure-ground discrimination.
- 3. Give a person a list of random numbers and ask them to circle all the odd numbers.
4. Give a person a series of numbers and ask him to repeat each one backwards (e.g., 0-1-8 3 becomes 3-8-1-0 etc.), or a list of words to spell backwards (e.g., "B L U E" becomes "E U L B" etc.)
A formal test of sustained attention is the Seashore Rhythm Test
In this test, the listener has to tell whether two sets in a series of tapped patterns are the same or different.
Selective Focus Attention: This is the ability to maintain a specified level of performance in the presence of distracting or competing stimuli. This is a major process in the figure-ground discrimination task. Here are some examples of these types of tasks.