This book provides both a review of the literature and a theoretical framework for understanding the development of visual attention from infancy through early childhood. Taking a functional approach to the topic, the authors discuss the development of the selective and state-related aspects of attention, as well as the emergence of higher-level controls. They also explore the individual differences in these facets of attention, and consider the possible origins of early deficits in attention, which has obvious implications for children with developmental disorders such as attention-deficit hyperactive disorder. These findings will be invaluable to developmental, cognitive, and clinical psychologists and psychiatrists.
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"Ruff and Rothbart have produced a plausible account of the role and development of attention in children. Although the major dependent measures have been based on visual inspection paradigms, this is justified in view of the predominant visual repertoire of humans and the ease of studying this modality in young children. They have produced some testable hypotheses and, where possible, have tried to back up their ideas with neurophysiological findings. This is a relatively new trend in developmental psychology and one to be encouraged. Readers of developmental psychology and attention researchers interested in the origins and development of their topic should read this book, whatever their position on attention modules and circuits." --Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
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Holly Alliger Ruff is at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Mary Klevjord Rothbart is at University of Oregon.
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Words and phrases referring to attention are common in our language, attesting to the importance of attention in our everyday lives. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
second attention system, first attention system, low attenders, embedded distractors, inhibitory skills, high attenders, attentional inertia, orienting network, peripheral narrowing, focused visual attention, puppet skits, vigilance network, infant visual attention, effective visual field, marker tasks, attention termination, sustained visual attention, effortful control, investigative system, alert infant, respiratory sinus arrhythmia, manipulative play, spontaneous alternation, visual following, habituation paradigm Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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second attention system, first attention system, low attenders, embedded distractors, inhibitory skills, high attenders, attentional inertia, orienting network, peripheral narrowing, focused visual attention, puppet skits, vigilance network, infant visual attention, effective visual field, marker tasks, attention termination, sustained visual attention, effortful control, investigative system, alert infant, respiratory sinus arrhythmia, manipulative play, spontaneous alternation, visual following, habituation paradigm Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Sesame Street, Academic Press, Earhv Development, Months Figure, American Psychological Association, Attention Group, Developmental Psychology, Hyperactivity Disorder, Infant Behavior Questionnaire, International Universities Press, Months of Age Figure, Bayley Mental Development Scale, Carey Toddler Temperament Scale, Simon Says, Wayne State University Press New!
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- Child Development by A.Christine Harris in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Cognitive Psychology by Ulric Neisser in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Child Development by Nora Newcombe in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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