Costs of Selective Attention: When Children Notice What Adults Miss

Autor/inn/en	Plebanek, Daniel J.; Sloutsky, Vladimir M.
Titel	Costs of Selective Attention: When Children Notice What Adults Miss
Quelle	(2017), (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
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Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Attention; Young Children; Adults; Age Differences; Cognitive Development; Cues; Memory; Ohio + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Aufmerksamkeit; Frühe Kindheit; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Kognitive Entwicklung; Stichwort; Gedächtnis
Abstract	One of the lawlike regularities of psychological science is that of developmental progression--an increase in sensorimotor, cognitive, and social functioning from childhood to adulthood. Here, we report a rare violation of this law, a developmental reversal in attention. In Experiment 1, 4- to 5- year olds (n = 34) and adults (n = 35) performed a change detection task that included externally cued and uncued shapes. Whereas the adults outperformed the children on the cued shapes, the children outperformed the adults on the uncued shapes. In Experiment 2, the same participants completed a visual search task, and their memory for search-relevant and search-irrelevant information was tested. The young children outperformed the adults with respect to search-irrelevant features. This demonstration of a paradoxical property of early attention deepens current understanding of the development of attention. It also has implications for understanding early learning and cognitive development more broadly. [This is the online version of an article published in "Psychological Science."] (As Provided).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01