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Differences in Detecting Statistical Visual Regularities between Typical and Poor Readers
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Taha, Haitham – Reading Psychology, 2023
The capacities of detecting visual regularities were tested among twenty typical (age 11.1 ± 0.32), and twenty poor (age 11.03 ± 0.28) native-Arab readers. Two stages were implemented, passive exposure to visual regularities and forced decision task. In the first stage, the participants were passively presented with four shapes; each shape was…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Early Adolescents, Visual Stimuli, Reaction Time
A Study of Strategies of Visual Attention in Children
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Pick, Anne D.; Frankel, Gusti, W. – Developmental Psychology, 1973
A study of developmental aspects of selective attention and task-related strategies of attention in 2nd and 6th graders. Age differences were found and interpreted as reflecting the development of flexible as well as selective attention strategies. (DP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Cognitive Development, Elementary School Students
Effect of Color and Monochrome Versions of a Film on Incidental and Task Relevant Learning.
Chute, Alan G. – Educational Communication and Technology: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Development, 1980
This study found that color in a film helped fourth- and fifth-grade students of all ability levels learn incidental information, but affected learning of task-relevant information differently depending on ability level. (Author/JEG)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Color, Elementary School Students, Films
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
Effects of Instructions and Stimulus Representation on Selective Learning in Children
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Gottfried, Adele E. – Developmental Psychology, 1976
This study compared the effects of two types of incidental learning paradigms and examined the influence of different kinds of stimulus relationships on first and sixth graders' selective learning processes. (GO)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Dimensional Preference, Elementary School Students, Grade 1