Divided Attention is the ability to attend to two or more activities simultaneously.
Divided Attention: This is the ability to attend to two or more activities simultaneously. Driving while talking on the cell-phone is an excellent example.
One must stay focused on the road without fail but must also attend to the flow of the conversation.
Some activities that exemplify divided attention would be as follows:
1. Walk down a street and keep track of the white cars on the right and the blue ones on the left.
2. Dividing playing cards into suites and at the same time turning over any card that has the letter ãeä in itâs name.
3. In Chess you must keep track not only of the shape of each piece but also of its color.