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Academic Boredom: An Underestimated Challenge in Schools
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Özerk, Gül – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2020
Academic boredom is a complex and underestimated problem in schools in many countries. The research on this phenomenon is mostly from Germany and Northern America. During the last two-three decades several studies have highlighted some aspects of academic boredom and its relationship to motivation and school-based learning behavior and outcomes.…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Student Motivation, Goal Orientation, Academic Achievement
The Development of Attention to Simple and Complex Visual Stimuli in Infants: Behavioral and Psychophysiological Measures
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Richards, John E. – Developmental Review, 2010
The study of visual attention in infants has used presentation of single simple stimuli, multi-dimensional stimuli, and complex dynamic video presentations. There are both continuities and discontinuities in the findings on attention and attentiveness to stimulus complexity. A continuity is a pattern of looking that is found in the early part of…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Attention, Infants, Video Technology
Joint Attention, Language, Social Relating, and Stereotypical Behaviours in Children with Autistic Disorder
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Delinicolas, Erin K.; Young, Robyn L. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2007
This study aimed to investigate the relationships between abilities to initiate and respond to joint attention and symptoms of autism that have, and have not, been theoretically linked to joint attention. Participants were 51 boys and five girls with autistic disorder, aged between 2 years and 6 years 5 months. Measures of joint attention…
Descriptors: Autism, Attention, Young Children, Social Behavior
Variable Risk Preferences and the Focus of Attention.
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March, James G.; Shapira, Zur – Psychological Review, 1992
Random-walk conceptions of performance, aspirations, and risk preferences are used to model a pattern of risk taking responsive to a risk taker's changing fortune. The impact of adaptive aspirations and attention focus on risk taking over time is explored for cohorts and a renewing population of risk takers. (SLD)
Descriptors: Aspiration, Attention, Behavior Patterns, Change
Context, Cortex, and Dopamine: A Connectionist Approach to Behavior and Biology in Schizophrenia.
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Cohen, Jonathan D.; Servan-Schreiber, David – Psychological Review, 1992
Using a connectionist framework, it is possible to develop models exploring effects of biologically relevant variables on behavior. The ability of such models to explain schizophrenic behavior in terms of biological disturbances is considered, and computer models are presented that simulate normal and schizophrenic behavior in an attentional task.…
Descriptors: Attention, Behavior Patterns, Biological Influences, Cognitive Processes
The Use of Event-Related Potentials in the Study of Early Cognitive Development
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Thierry, Guillaume – Infant and Child Development, 2005
Studying normal infant development is a challenge for cognitive scientists in general and for neuroscientists in particular because: (1) physiological indices of infant cognition are generally noisy and technically difficult to obtain; and (2) interindividual variability and a paucity of established results make data interpretation very complex,…
Descriptors: Infants, Medicine, Data Interpretation, Ethics