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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Attention Skills and Looking to Television in Children from Low Income Families
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Brown, Danielle D.; Weatherholt, Tara N.; Burns, Barbara M. – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2010
Attentional skills and home environment were examined as predictors of looking patterns during television viewing by 70 48- to 91-month-old children from low income families. Looking to the television was assessed in conditions without distractors and with continuous distractors. Looking patterns during television viewing reflected attentional…
Descriptors: Television Viewing, Low Income, Attention, Family Environment
Maternal Scaffolding and Attention Regulation in Children Living in Poverty
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Robinson, Julia B.; Burns, Barbara M.; Davis, Deborah Winders – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2009
This study examines the relation of maternal scaffolding and children's attention regulation abilities in preschool children from low-income families within the context of a parent-child interaction task and in a child-alone task. Maternal scaffolding behaviors differed for mothers of children with different attention regulation skills. Mothers…
Descriptors: Mothers, Economically Disadvantaged, Preschool Children, Interaction
Characterizing Preschool Children's Attention Regulation in Parent-Child Interactions: The Roles of Effortful Control and Motivation
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Harris, Ruby C.; Robinson, Julia B.; Chang, Florence; Burns, Barbara M. – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2007
This study examined relations among effortful control, motivation, and attention regulation in preschoolers within the context of parent-child interactions. Sixty-one low-income children and their mothers participated in a puzzle-matching task. One week later, the children completed a puzzle-matching task independently. Hierarchical regression…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Preschool Children, Self Control, Parent Child Relationship
Analysis of Attention and Analogical Reasoning in Children of Poverty
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Weatherholt, Tara N.; Harris, Ruby C.; Burns, Barbara M.; Clement, Catherine – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2006
This study examined the relationship between specific attentional aspects of processing capacity and analogical reasoning in children from low-income families. 77 children aged 48-77 (M = 56.7) months were assessed on an analogical reasoning task (matrices subtest of the Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test) and on computerized attention tasks designed…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Cognitive Processes, Thinking Skills, Young Children