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Peer reviewedZentall, Sydney S. – Journal of Special Education, 1989
The performance of 20 hyperactive and 26 comparison elementary-school boys on a spelling recognition task found that color facilitates attention to detail. Hyperactive children who practiced the task with all black letters first and color added later out-performed comparison children. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Attention Control, Color, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedSergeant, J. A.; Scholten, C. A. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 1983
In a memory search task with context recognition, three groups of children were examined: hyperactives, somewhat hyperactives, and controls. Both groups of hyperactive-rated children were slower in their cognitive processing than controls. (MP)
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedAman, Christine J.; Roberts, Ralph J., Jr.; Pennington, Bruce F. – Developmental Psychology, 1998
Examined front and right parietal lobe theories of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); subjects were 10- to 14-year-old boys with or without ADHD. Found that non-ADHD boys performed better on frontal- and parietal-domain tasks than unmedicated ADHD boys, unmedicated AHDH boys had greater impairments on frontal than parietal tasks, and…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Brain, Comparative Analysis, Early Adolescents
Peer reviewedBreier, Joshua I.; Gray, Lincoln C.; Fletcher, Jack M.; Foorman, Barbara; Klaas, Patricia – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2002
Administered temporal order judgment and discrimination tasks to children with reading disabilities (RD), with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, with both disorders, or with neither. Found that RD children showed no specific sensitivity to the interstimulus interval and performed worse than non-RD children on speech but not nonspeech…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Auditory Stimuli, Children, Comparative Analysis
Download full textMetzger, Mary Ann; Freund, Lisa – 1986
The present research assessed the ability to attend to relevant information in the presence of irrelevant distraction in hyperactive (H), learning disabled (LD), and unselected (US) children. A total of 20 LD, 20 H, and 20 US children divided into younger and older age groups participated in the study. Younger children were between 94 and 104…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention Control, Classification, Comparative Analysis
Metzger, Mary Ann; Freund, Lisa – 1986
The major purpose of this study was to describe the rule-governed and contingency-shaped behavior of learning-disabled, hyperactive, and nonselected elementary school children working on a computer-managed task. Hypotheses tested were (1) that the children would differ in the degree to which either instructions or external contingencies controlled…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contingency Management, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedHoza, Betsy; Waschbusch, Daniel A.; Pelham, William E.; Molina, Brooke S. G.; Milich, Richard – Child Development, 2000
Compared behavioral, self-evaluative, and attributional responses of boys with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) to those of typically-developing boys on a social success and failure laboratory task. Found that ADHD boys rated their own performance more favorably than controls, were more likely to attribute success to external…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Attribution Theory, Child Behavior, Childhood Attitudes
