focused attention

/ˈfoʊ.kəst əˈtɛn.ʃən/

noun phrase

  1. Concentrated mental effort directed toward a specific person, task, or thing while excluding distractions.

    B1

    uncountable; often followed by on

    • "Focused attention is necessary when driving in heavy traffic."B2
    • "The experiment requires focused attention for several hours."B2
    • "Through meditation, he learned to maintain focused attention despite background noise."C1
    • "To improve his grades, he needed to develop focused attention during study sessions."B1

Common mistakes

  • focused attention to the task→focused attention on the task

    Use on after focused attention when naming what receives the attention.

Collocations

pay focused attentionmaintain focused attentionrequire focused attentionfocused attention on a taskfocused attention training

Word family

focusfocusedfocusesfocusingattentionattentive