Attending to change / getting bored with monotony is such a...
User thethoughtexperiment, in the changemyview subreddit,
Attending to change / getting bored with monotony is such a common thing, I'm not sure there is a specific term for it. But…
Too Much of a Good Thing: How Novelty Biases and Vocabulary Influence Known and Novel Referent Selection in 18‐Month‐Old Children and Associative Learning Models
Overview of attention for article published in Cognitive Science, April 2018