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Peer reviewedCalvert, Sandra L.; And Others – Child Development, 1982
Investigates the relationship between the moment-to-moment occurrence of selected visual and auditory formal features of a prosocial cartoon and two aspects of information processing (visual attention and comprehension). Subjects, 128 White kindergarten and third- to fourth-grade children, were equally distributed by sex and age and viewed the…
Descriptors: Attention, Children, Comprehension, Recall (Psychology)
Download full textCalvert, Sandra L.; Scott, M. Catherine – 1987
In this study, children's selective attention to, and comprehension of, variably-paced television programs were examined as a function of sound effects. Sixty-four children, equally distributed by sex and by preschool and fourth grades, were randomly assigned to one of four treatment conditions which crossed two levels of sound effects (presence…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comprehension, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades
Lipinski, Judith M.; Calvert, Sandra L. – 1985
This paper places research findings within a social learning framework to demonstrate that television influences the development of sex typing in children. First, the presence of sex-typed content in television programming and advertising is documented. Then, the nature of children's attention to and comprehension of televised messages is…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Children, Comprehension, Literature Reviews
Calvert, Sandra L. – 1983
The purpose of this study was to assess developmental differences in children's visual attention to, and comprehension of, a prosocial television program as a function of varying "preplay" formats. (Preplays were defined as advance organizers designed to help a child select, order, and integrate critical televised content into a memory…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Age Differences, Attention, Auditory Stimuli
PDF pending restorationCalvert, Sandra L.; And Others – 1984
Preplays (critical material presented before a televised program) were inserted before three sections of a televised story to determine if they would improve children's attention and comprehension by providing overall plot structure for selecting and integrating important story events. The preplays varied on two orthogonal dimensions: presence or…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Age Differences, Attention, Comprehension
Peer reviewedCalvert, Sandra L.; Scott, M. Catherine – Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 1989
Discussion of comprehension and attention processes of children viewing television programs highlights a study that was conducted to examine the potential impact of sound effects on children's visual orientation to television programs which varied in the rate of program pace. Results for four treatment groups of preschool children and fourth…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Attention, Childrens Television, Comprehension
