Question

You have been writing that dreaded term paper all night. It’s 3am and you are very tired. You finally decide to quit and go to bed after you find yourself reading the same paragraph over and over. In this example, you have lost the ability to use which kind of attention?

Answer 1

You have lost the ability to use sustained attention.

Step-by-step explanation:

This type of attention allows the person to maintain his/her attention to a given task over a long period of time.

Once this form of attention comes into play, the individual can generally focus on a task resisting any form of fatigue or distractions. It is also related to motivation.

In this case, the individual has lost this type of attention since he/she has been rereading the same paragraph and has not been able to maintain any new information, hence he/she quits.

Since it's early in the morning, fatigue is taking over and we can see there was not a lot of motivation to begin with, since the paper is "dreaded".