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focusing effect

focusing effect

the ostensible phenomenon in which performance is better for trials in which the target is the object of special attentional focus (perhaps because it has particular significance for the participant). The phenomenon is of particular interest in studies of extrasensory perception and psychokinesis. See also decline effect; differential effect; position effect; preferential effect; sheep–goat effect; Zener cards.

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