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Differences in the Vigilance Performance of Second-Grade Children as Related to Sex and Achievement
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Kirchner, Grace L.; Knopf, Irwin J. – Child Development, 1974
Second grade children, divided into high and low achievement groups, were tested on a visual vigilance task in which stimuli occurred 24 times in 30 minutes. High achievers responded correctly more often. (ST)
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Attention Span, Elementary School Students, Laboratory Experiments
Attention-Getting and Attention-Holding Processes of Infant Visual Preferences
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Cohen, Leslie B. – Child Development, 1972
Results support the contention that infant attention should be divided into separate attention-getting and attention-holding processes. (Author)
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Span, Eye Fixations, Infants
Visual Preferences of Four-Month-Old Premature and Full-Term Infants
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Sigman, Marian; Parmelee, Arthur H. – Child Development, 1974
Descriptors: Age, Attention Span, Cognitive Development, Developmental Psychology
Behavior of Young Children with Down Syndrome Before the Mirror: Finding Things Reflected.
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Loveland, Katherine A. – Child Development, 1987
When children with Down's syndrome and normally developing children of comparable mental age were compared in their ability to find things they saw in a mirror, it was found that the ability of children with Down's syndrome paralleled that of normally developing children, but that motivational, attentional, and exploratory differences may exist.…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attention Span, Child Development, Downs Syndrome
Preferential Looking at Temporal Frequencies by Preterm Infants.
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Gardner, Judith M.; Karmel, Bernard Z. – Child Development, 1981
Preferential looking at stimuli varying in temporal frequency was examined in 11 prematurely born infants. The relationship between amount of looking and stimulus frequency yielded a significant linear trend with the fastest frequency used (4 hertz) being most preferred. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Attention Span, Infant Behavior, Intervals, Low Income Groups
Generalized Habituation of Concept Stimuli in Toddlers
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Faulkender, Patricia J.; And Others – Child Development, 1974
An evaluation of selective generalization of habituation on the basis of meaningful categories of stimuli. Also explored are the sex differences in conceptual generalization of habituation. Subjects were 36 toddlers with a mean age of 40 months. (SDH)
Descriptors: Attention Span, Concept Formation, Discrimination Learning, Eye Fixations
Habituation Rate and the Infant's Response to Visual Discrepancies
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McCall, Robert B.; And Others – Child Development, 1973
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention Span, Cognitive Development, Eye Fixations
Extended Visual Fixation in the Early Preschool Years: Look Duration, Heart Rate Changes, and Attentional Inertia.
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Richards, John E.; Cronise, Kim – Child Development, 2000
Examined visual fixation in infants 6 months to 2 years old for fit with theory of attentional inertia. Found that fixations had lognormal distribution, heart rate decreased during a look, and heart rate returned to prestimulus levels immediately before look offset. Older children showed different looking patterns to two types of stimuli; younger…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Attention Control, Attention Span