Attention refers to the direction and concentration of a person's mental activity on a certain object. 3 The main characteristics of attention development in 6-year-old children include the following:
First, focus on unintentional attention.
Before the age of 3, children are mainly unintentional attention, and they are not yet able to actively and purposefully focus their attention on an object or event. As they grow older, young children are able to gradually control their attention and gradually develop from unintentional to intentional attention.
Second, the stability of attention is gradually improved.
The stability of young children's attention improves with age. In early toddlers, it is difficult for their attention to focus on an object or event for a long time, and they are easily disturbed and influenced by the outside world. However, as young children accumulate experience in activities and games, their attention stability gradually improves.
Third, the scope of attention is gradually expanding.
Young children's attention span is narrow, and they can only notice objects or events that they are interested in, familiar with, or more obvious. As they grow older, young children are able to notice more objects and events, and the range of attention gradually expands.
Fourth, the ability to pay attention to distribution is gradually increasing.
Young children's ability to distribute attention is poor, and it is difficult for them to pay attention to multiple objects or events at the same time. But as they get older, young children are able to gradually divide their attention and notice multiple objects or events at the same time.
Fifth, the ability to transfer attention is gradually improved.
Young children's ability to transfer attention is also poor, and it is difficult for them to quickly move from one object or event to another. But as they get older, young children are able to gradually control their attention shifts and quickly move from one activity to another.
In conclusion, attention development in 3 to 6-year-old children is a gradual maturation and stabilization process, and as they grow older, their attention will gradually become more stable, focused, flexible and controllable. Therefore, in the process of educating children, we should pay attention to cultivating children's attention quality, exercise children's attention ability through various activities and games, and help them better adapt to future learning and life.