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Peer reviewedLorch, Elizabeth Pugzles; Horn, Donna G. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Tests the hypothesis that habituation of attention to irrelevant information can account for within-task improvement in selective attention--that children who are preexposed to stimuli that will later be irrelevant in a speeded classification task will experience less interference than children not given the opportunity to habituate. (HOD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention Control, Classification, Elementary Education
