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ERIC Number: EJ308886
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1984
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Distractibility and Concentration of Attention in Children's Development.
Higgins, Anne T.; Turnure, James E.
Child Development, v55 n5 p1799-810 Oct 1984
Preschool, second-, and sixth-grade children performed developmentally gradated, easy and difficult visual discrimination tasks in a quiet room or with one of two levels of extraneous auditory stimulation. Subjects' errors, response latencies, and glances away from the task were recorded. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Cognitive Ability, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Error Patterns, Learning, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Reaction Time, Visual Discrimination
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Audience: Researchers
Language: English
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Identifiers: Developmental Patterns