Class 12 Education Chapter 5 (B) Attention and Interest

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Class 12 Education Chapter 5 (B) Attention and Interest

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QUESTIONS FOR 2 MARK EACH

Q.1. What is interest? 

Ans :- Interest means ‘it matters to us.’ When we say that a person is interested in music, we mean that music matters to him. We have instinct and sentiments which are the two sources of interest. All of us are instinctively interested in our self-preservation. The birds are interested in nests, the infants in bright objects, the grown-up children in games. 

Similarly, sentiments are also the sources of interest. When we say that a – person is interested in swimming, we mean that he had developed a sentiment for swimming. 

Q.2. Mention two characteristics of interest. 

Ans :- Two Characteristics of interest are :-

( i ) Interest is that innate state of mind which inspires us to act from within. 

( ii ) Every one of us is blessed with feelings and interest generally originate from them. 

Q.3. What is temporary interest? 

Ans :- Transitory or temporary interest lasts only for a short time. This type of interest is motivated by some temporary external force at a particular point of time. It is situational in nature. 

Q.4. Write two objective conditions of attention. 

Ans :- One of the conditions of attention is objective conditions of attention. 

( a ) Intensity of stimulus :- Loud sounds and bright lights naturally attract one’s attention. 

( b ) Change :- Sudden changes of the stimulus make us curious and attentive. 

Q.5. What is acquired interest? 

Ans :- Acquired interests are due to acquired disposition like sentiments, habits, character ideas and tastes. These are results of training and education received in the environment. An acquired interest is the interest is the interest which is deliberately derived by a person. 

Q.6. What is attention? 

Ans :- Attention is generally defined as the ‘focussing and consciousness on an idea or object of thought’. Attention is always present in our conscious life. In every moment of our waking life we are attending to something. The process of attention helps us to understand ideas and objects clearly. 

Q.7. What is spontaneous attention? 

Ans :- Spontaneous non-volitional attention is sustained by the acquired sentiment of the individual towards something. Here attention remains passive but acts spontaneously due to interest already formed in mind eg. attention paid towards a beautiful piece of music. 

Q.8. Write the name of two distractors of attention. 

Ans :- Two distractors of attention are : –

(a) Size ( b ) Intensity .

Q.9. What are the objective conditions of attention? 

Ans :- One of the conditions of attention is objective condition. Following are the objective conditions of attention. 

(a) Intensity of stimulus :- Loud sounds and bright lights naturally attract one’s attention. 

( b ) Change :- Sudden changes of the stimulus make us curious and attentive.

( c ) Novelty :- New objects attract attention more rapidly. 

( d ) Movement :- Moving things attracts our attention easily. 

( e ) Clearness of outline :- if a thing appears clearly before our eyes it naturally attracts our attention.

Q.10. Mention two environmental factors of interest. 

Ans :- (i) Educational environment and 

( ii ) If the environment is less stimulating to children. 

Q.11. Why attention is considered as a selective activity of mind. 

Ans :- There are many things in and around us. But attention is not paid to all these things at a time. Different objects of the environment affect us as stimulus and consequently we become generally aware of them. Out of many things that stimulate us one particular object or subject is selected and the conscious mind is focused or connected on it. This is known, selected and conscious is focused on it . This is known as attention. Thus in the mental process called attention a particular object or subject of the environment is selected and conscious is focused on.

Q.12. What is fluctuation of attention? 

Ans :- Attention constantly fluctuates and shifts from one object to another. There are two types of fluctuations :-

( i ) fluctuation of amplitude and 

( ii ) fluctuation of periodicity. 

Q.13. What do you mean by oscillation of attention? 

Ans : When attention keeps shifting from one object to another it is called fluctuation of attention. Attention is mobile. So we cannot focus on one thing or object continuously. 

Q.14. What is the span of attention? 

Ans :- Attention may be described as focussing our conscious mind at a definite object. Attention of a person towards anything has its limitations. One cannot attend to too many things when presented immediately. There is a certain limit to which one may attend something when presented. Psychologists have undertaken experiments with individuals on the span of attention by using the apparatus called tachistoscope. From such an experiment it was found that usually an individual contained six points as six dots presented in the apparatus. Such a limit is known as the span of attention. 

Q.15. What is transitory interest? 

Ans :- Transitory or temporary interest last only for a short time. This type of interest is motivated by some temporary external force at a particular point of time. It is situational in nature. 

Q.16. ‘Attention is a selective process’- Discuss. 

Ans :- Attention is essentially a selective activity of the mind. It represents a selection out of certain aspects of the observable environment. It is focussing on consciousness, on an idea, object, or thought. Attention is a process of getting an object of thought clearly before the mind. Therefore, in order to have the sensible clearness of any object, our mind selects only one object at a time. 

Q.17. Why attention is considered as an exploratory process. 

Ans :- Attention is considered as an exploratory process. Our mind gives importance to each new thing and wants to know all about the new things on the basis that it selects the area or subject for attention. 

Q.18. ‘Attention involves positive and negative aspects’-explain. 

Ans :- Attention involves positive and negative aspects. To explain it we can mention its positive and negative aspects separately. 

Positive aspects :- ( i ) Attention is an act of focusing or concentrating our consciousness on a particular object or idea of the environment. 

( ii ) Attention is a mental activity. 

Negative aspects :- ( i ) Attention is dynamic. 

( ii ) Attention is selective .

( iii ) At a particular span of time we can attend to very limited objects or ideas. 

Q.19. What is ideational attention? 

Ans :- When we concentrate on an idea or thought it is called ideational attention. It is not dependent upon sensory organs; we can pay attention even in the absence of the stimulus, as in the case of a film seen before we can concentrate on the ideas or the film which we witnessed before.

Q.20. ‘ Volitional attention may create interest’. Give an example. 

Ans :- An example of volitional adduction may create interest if a student attends to his studies of his own account and not as a result of any external pressure, his attention will be called volitional attention. 

Q.21. ‘Attention is always shifting.’ Discuss. 

Ans :- Though we generally attend to one thing at a time, our attention is always shifting from one object to the other. This has been proved by experimentation that our attention to any one object cannot last for more than a few seconds. 

Q.22. Explain attention as a process of mental alertness. 

Ans :- Attention involves all aspects of mental life-Cognitive, Affective and Conative. 

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