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Developmental Change in the Nature of Attention Allocation in a Dual Task
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Cowan, Nelson; AuBuchon, Angela M.; Gilchrist, Amanda L.; Blume, Christopher L.; Boone, Alexander P.; Saults, J. Scott – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Younger children have more difficulty in sharing attention between two concurrent tasks than do older participants, but in addition to this developmental change, we documented changes in the nature of attention sharing. We studied children 6-8 and 10-14 years old and college students (in all, 104 women and 76 men; 3% Hispanic, 3% Black or African…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Individual Development, Children, Preadolescents
Developmental Differences in the Use of Recognition Memory Rejection Mechanisms
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Odegard, Timothy N.; Jenkins, Kara M.; Koen, Joshua D. – Developmental Psychology, 2010
The current experiment examined the use of plausibility judgments by children to reject distractors presented on "yes/no" recognition memory tests. Participants studied two lists of word pairs that shared either a categorical or rhyme association, which constituted the global nature of the two study conditions. During the recognition memory tests,…
Descriptors: Test Items, Rhyme, Recognition (Psychology), Memory