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Children's and Adults' Knowledge about What Variables Affect Selective Attention.
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Miller, Patricia H.; Weiss, Michael G. – Child Development, 1982
The purpose of this research was to examine developmental changes in the knowledge about what variables affect performance on the incidental learning task. Kindergarteners, second graders, fifth graders, and college students indicated on a rating scale how many animals a hypothetical person would remember under easy and difficult levels of each…
Descriptors: Adults, Attention, Children, Cognitive Development
Children's Attention Allocation, Understanding of Attention, and Performance on the Incidental Learning Task.
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Miller, Patricia H.; Weiss, Michael G. – Child Development, 1981
Strategies of allocating attention to information and incidental learning task performance were assessed among 60 children from grades 2, 5, and 8. Children's predictions about their recall of incidental objects and answers to a posttest questionnaire provided verbal measures of their understanding of attention. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
A Developmental Study of Intelligent Retrieval.
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Keniston, Allen H.; Flavell, John H. – Child Development, 1979
Among elementary, junior high, and college students, intelligent retrieval methods for recalling 20 letters of the alphabet consisted either of mentally proceeding through the alphabet from the onset and writing down each previously written letter as encountered and recognized, or else first rote recalling some letters and then switching to the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Students, Elementary School Students, Incidental Learning
Selective Attention Deficits in Poor Readers? Dichotic Listening, Speeded Classification, and Auditory and Visual Central and Incidental Learning Tasks.
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Pelham, William E. – Child Development, 1979
Results as a whole did not support the hypothesis that poor readers show deficits in selective attention relative to age-matched normal readers. (RH)
Descriptors: Attention, Auditory Perception, Classification, Cognitive Development
A Life-Span Study of the Interaction of Selectivity and Knowledge in Memory.
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Azmitia, Margarita; And Others – Child Development, 1987
To examine selective memorization in a scene context in which the expectancy of items was manipulated, preschool children, young adults, and older adults viewed a series of familiar scenes and were asked to remember one item from each. Results for children contrasted with the typical result of selective memorization research. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Ability, Expectation, Incidental Learning