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On Resource Strategy Limitations in Hyperactivity: Cognitive Impulsivity Reconsidered.
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Sergeant, Joseph A.; Scholten, C. A. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 1985
Reports the results of a high-speed search task administered to overactive and distractible (hyperactives), normoactive and distractible, and normoactive and attentive (controls) children. Instructions emphasized speed, accuracy, or both speed and accuracy. Indicates that controls and distractibles conformed to the fast guess model, which relates…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Children, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style
On Data Limitations in Hyperactivity.
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Sergeant, Joseph A.; Scholten, C. A. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 1985
Three groups of elementary school children, rated on activity and distractibility, were given a visual search task with three levels of display load and tested twice in two conditions of stimulus visibility. Encoding deficit or data limitation did not account for the attentional performance of either hyperactive or somewhat hyperactive subjects.…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Children, Cognitive Style, Conceptual Tempo