Descriptor
| Behavior Patterns | 2 |
| Conditioning | 2 |
| Infant Behavior | 2 |
| Attention | 1 |
| Attention Control | 1 |
| Attention Span | 1 |
| Cognitive Development | 1 |
| Environmental Influences | 1 |
| Feasibility Studies | 1 |
| Hypothesis Testing | 1 |
| Infants | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Source
Publication Type
Education Level
Audience
Location
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
| Bayley Scales of Infant… | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Download full textFoster, Martha; And Others – 1973
A total of 48 8- to 14-week-old infants were presented with a non-contingently moving visual stimulus and the infants' visual attention was measured. Infants who exhibited decrements in attention to the non-contingent stimulus showed recovery in attention when the same stimulus was made to move contingent upon a motor response. Moreover, wisual…
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Control, Behavior Patterns, Conditioning
Strong, Emily; Vallery, Arlee
Tests of conditionability in infants were used in a longidudinal study of 32 subjects in the first year of life. The research was based on Eysenck's hypothesis that conditionability i s a unitary factor related to introversion-extroversion and attention span. The objective of the investigators was to devise a battery of conditioning tasks…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Development, Conditioning
