Assessing Selective Sustained Attention in 3- to 5-Year-Old Children: Evidence from a New Paradigm

Autor/inn/en	Fisher, Anna; Thiessen, Erik; Godwin, Karrie; Kloos, Heidi; Dickerson, John
Titel	Assessing Selective Sustained Attention in 3- to 5-Year-Old Children: Evidence from a New Paradigm
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 114 (2013) 2, S.275-294 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
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Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0965
DOI	10.1016/j.jecp.2012.07.006
Schlagwörter	Psychometrics; Models; Preschool Children; Young Children; Cognitive Ability; Developmentally Appropriate Practices; Attention Control; Early Childhood Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Psychometry; Psychometrie; Analogiemodell; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Frühe Kindheit; Denkfähigkeit; Entwicklungsbezogene Bildung; Aufmerksamkeitstest; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik
Abstract	Selective sustained attention (SSA) is crucial for higher order cognition. Factors promoting SSA are described as exogenous or endogenous. However, there is little research specifying how these factors interact during development, due largely to the paucity of developmentally appropriate paradigms. We report findings from a novel paradigm designed to investigate SSA in preschoolers. The findings indicate that this task (a) has good psychometric and parametric properties and (b) allows investigation of exogenous and endogenous factors within the same task, making it possible to attribute changes in performance to different mechanisms of attentional control rather than to differences in engagement in different tasks. (Contains 5 figures and 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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