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Dividing Attention Lowers Children's but Increases Adults' False Memories
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Otgaar, Henry; Peters, Maarten; Howe, Mark L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2012
The present study examined the impact of divided attention on children's and adults' neutral and negative true and false memories in a standard Deese/Roediger-McDermott paradigm. Children (7- and 11-year-olds; n = 126) and adults (n = 52) received 5 neutral and 5 negative Deese/Roediger-McDermott word lists; half of each group also received a…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Word Lists, Attention Control, Memory
Effect of Attentional Demands on Context Utilization
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Klein, Gary A. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1976
The prediction that utilization of contextual information will be reduced by the presentation of secondary tasks requiring attention was studied. The importance of a limited-capacity operational memory for reading performance was discussed. (BJG)
Descriptors: Attention Control, College Students, Context Clues, Higher Education
Attentional Modulation of the Phonetic Significance of Acoustic Cues.
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Gordon, Peter C.; And Others – Cognitive Psychology, 1993
Four experiments involving 42 Harvard University students and 35 subjects addressing the role of attention in phonetic perception demonstrate that attention influences the signal-to-noise ratio in the phonetic encoding of acoustic cues. Implications for understanding speech perception and general theories of the role of attention in perception are…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Attention Control, Auditory Perception, College Students