Task relevance is a top-down factor that influences attention, while stimulus intensity, salience, and novelty are bottom-up factors.

Selective attention is the ability to focus on a specific task while ignoring distractions.

Stimulus intensity is a bottom-up factor that influences attention, while goals, expectations, and prior knowledge are top-down factors.

Sustained attention is the ability to maintain attention on a task over an extended period of time.

Attention is not effortless; it requires effort to focus and maintain attention on a task.

Alternating attention is the ability to switch attention between different tasks or stimuli.

Familiarity is not a factor that can affect attentional capture.

Confirmation bias is the tendency to focus on information that is consistent with our existing beliefs and expectations.

Circadian rhythm is not a factor that can affect sustained attention.

Emotional attentional bias is the tendency to focus on information that is emotionally salient.

Gender is not a factor that can affect divided attention.

Selective attention is the ability to ignore irrelevant information and focus on relevant information.

Motivation is not a factor that can affect attentional control.

Divided attention is the ability to focus attention on multiple tasks or stimuli simultaneously.

Gender is not a factor that can affect attentional shifting.