A New Measure for Assessing Executive Function across a Wide Age Range: Children and Adults Find "Happy-Sad" More Difficult than "Day-Night"

Autor/inn/en	Lagattuta, Kristin Hansen; Sayfan, Liat; Monsour, Michael
Titel	A New Measure for Assessing Executive Function across a Wide Age Range: Children and Adults Find "Happy-Sad" More Difficult than "Day-Night"
Quelle	In: Developmental Science, 14 (2011) 3, S.481-489 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-755X
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-7687.2010.00994.x
Schlagwörter	Cartoons; Memory; Age Differences; Children; Comparative Analysis; Visual Stimuli; Task Analysis; Experiments; Emotional Response; Adults; Evaluation; Child Development; Science Education; Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Zeichentrickfilm; Gedächtnis; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Child; Kind; Kinder; Aufgabenanalyse; Erprobung; Emotionales Verhalten; Evaluierung; Kindesentwicklung; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Elementarunterricht
Abstract	Two experiments examined 4- to 11-year-olds' and adults' performance (N = 350) on two variants of a Stroop-like card task: the "day-night task" (say "day" when shown a moon and "night" when shown a sun) and a new "happy-sad task" (say "happy" for a sad face and "sad" for a happy face). Experiment 1 featured colored cartoon drawings. In Experiment 2, the happy-sad task featured photographs, and pictures for both measures were grayscale. All age groups made more errors and took longer to respond to the happy-sad versus the day-night versions. Unlike the day-night task, the happy-sad task did not suffer from ceiling effects, even in adults. The happy-sad task provides a methodological advance for measuring executive function across a wide age range. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10