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Direct linkDarby, Kevin P.; Deng, Sophia W.; Walther, Dirk B.; Sloutsky, Vladimir M. – Child Development, 2021
Selective attention is the ability to focus on goal-relevant information while filtering out irrelevant information. This work examined the development of selective attention to natural scenes and objects with a rapid serial visual presentation paradigm. Children (N = 69, ages 4-6 years) and adults (N = 80) were asked to attend to either objects…
Descriptors: Child Development, Young Children, Adults, Bias
Peer reviewedRoberts, Ralph J., Jr.; Aman, Christine J. – Child Development, 1993
In 2 experiments a total of 28 6-and 8-year olds and 9 adults were tested on a task that required making left-right directional judgments from various rotated orientations. The results supported the hypothesis that respondents who answered correctly performed imaginary rotations to correctly align themselves with the object. (MDM)
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Development, Orientation, Spatial Ability
Peer reviewedAnooshian, Linda J.; Wilson, Katryn L. – Child Development, 1977
Presents a study of the effect of distance distortion in perceived route extensity on memory for the location of objects in a spatial array. (JMB)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Kindergarten Children, Logical Thinking
Peer reviewedOpfer, John E.; Gelman, Susan A. – Child Development, 2001
Two studies examined models that preschoolers, fifth-graders, and adults use to guide predictions of self-beneficial, goal-directed action. Found that preschoolers' predictions were consistent with an animal-based model, fifth-graders' with biology-based and complexity-based models, and adults' predictions with a biology-based model. All age…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Comparative Analysis
