{"id":79130,"date":"2025-11-14T19:56:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/psychological-mechanisms-of-the-theory-of-excitation-attention-in-the-context-of-road-traffic\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T10:47:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T10:47:29","slug":"psychological-mechanisms-of-the-theory-of-excitation-attention-in-the-context-of-road-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/psychological-mechanisms-of-the-theory-of-excitation-attention-in-the-context-of-road-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychological Mechanisms of the Theory of &#8220;Excitation-Attention&#8221; in the Context of Road Traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>those psychological aspects that are important to consider in the context of behavior on the road:<br \/>\n 1) Focus of attention: with moderate excitement, the volume of attention is balanced and flexible, with high excitement, there is a narrowing of attention, the driver focuses on one stimulus (for example, on the car in front of him) and ignores other stimuli (for example, traffic lights) \u2013 the phenomenon of &#8220;tunnel consciousness&#8221;.<br \/>\n2) Reaction speed: Moderate arousal improves reaction time, whereas excessive or low arousal promotes impulsivity or slowness, respectively.<br \/>\n3) Control of executive functions: Extreme levels of arousal impair the ability to control executive functions (planning, decision-making), leading to impulsive or aggressive behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>those psychological aspects that are important to consider in the context of behavior on the road: 1) Focus of attention: with moderate excitement, the volume of attention is balanced and flexible, with high excitement, there is a narrowing of attention, the driver focuses on one stimulus (for example, on the car in front of him) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-key-psychological-concepts-in-traffic-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79131,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79130\/revisions\/79131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}