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Simpson, Andrew; Al Ruwaili, Reshaa; Jolley, Richard; Leonard, Hayley; Geeraert, Nicolas; Riggs, Kevin J. – Child Development, 2019
Previous research shows that the development of response inhibition and drawing skill are linked. The current research investigated whether this association reflects a more fundamental link between response inhibition and motor control. In Experiment 1, 3- and 4-year-olds (n = 100) were tested on measures of inhibition, fine motor control, and…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Freehand Drawing, Inhibition, Correlation
Simpson, Andrew; Riggs, Kevin J.; Beck, Sarah R.; Gorniak, Sarah L.; Wu, Yvette; Abbott, David; Diamond, Adele – Developmental Science, 2012
Understanding (a) how responses become prepotent provides insights into when inhibition is needed in everyday life. Understanding (b) how response prepotency is overcome provides insights for helping children develop strategies for overcoming such tendencies. Concerning (a), on tasks such as the day-night Stroop-like task, is the difficulty with…
Descriptors: Inhibition, Responses, Young Children, Reaction Time
Riggs, Kevin J.; Jolley, Richard P.; Simpson, Andrew – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2013
We investigated the role of inhibitory control in young children's human figure drawing. We used the Bear-Dragon task as a measure of inhibitory control and used the classification system devised by Cox and Parkin to measure the development of human figure drawing. We tested 50 children aged between 40 and 64 months. Regression analysis showed…
Descriptors: Inhibition, Classification, Young Children, Freehand Drawing
Simpson, Andrew; Riggs, Kevin J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2011
The response set effect has been observed in a number of developmental tasks that are proposed to required inhibition. This effect has been interpreted as evidence that the specific responses children plan to make in these tasks become prepotent. Here we investigated whether there is a response set effect in the hand game. In this task, children…
Descriptors: Evidence, Child Development, Emotional Response, Imitation
Simpson, Andrew; Riggs, Kevin J. – Developmental Psychology, 2007
Understanding how responses become prepotent is essential for understanding when inhibitory control is needed in everyday behavior. The authors investigated the conditions under which manual actions became prepotent in a go/no-go task. Children had to open boxes that contained stickers on go trials and leave shut boxes that were empty on no-go…
Descriptors: Young Children, Inhibition, Child Behavior, Self Control
Simpson, Andrew; Riggs, Kevin J. – Infant and Child Development, 2009
Understanding how responses become prepotent is essential for understanding when inhibitory control is needed in everyday behaviour. We investigated prepotency in the grass-snow task--in which a child points to a green card when the experimenter says "snow" and a white card when the experimenter says "grass". Experiment 1 (n =…
Descriptors: Inhibition, Child Behavior, Perceptual Development, Neuropsychology
Conditions under Which Children Experience Inhibitory Difficulty with a "Button-Press" Go/No-Go Task
Simpson, Andrew; Riggs, Kevin J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2006
Go/no-go tasks seem to provide a simple marker of inhibitory development in young children. Children are told to respond to one stimulus on go trials but to make no response to another stimulus on no-go trials; responding on no-go trials is assumed to reflect a failure to inhibit the go response. However, there is evidence to suggest that a type…
Descriptors: Young Children, Stimuli, Inhibition, Task Analysis
Simpson, Andrew; Riggs, Kevin J. – Developmental Science, 2005
In a recent study Diamond, Kirkham and Amso (2002) obtained evidence consistent with the claim that the day-night task requires inhibition because the picture and its corresponding conflicting response are semantically related. In their study children responded more accurately in a dog-pig condition (see /day picture/ say "dog"; see /night…
Descriptors: Semantics, Preschool Children, Task Analysis, Inhibition
Simpson, Andrew; Riggs, Keven J.; Simon, Muriel – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2004
The windows task is difficult for young children. In this task, a child is shown two boxes with windows revealing that one is empty, whereas the other contains a treat. The child is asked to point to a box for an opponent to look in. The child then ''wins'' the contents of the other box (the treat). To pass the task, the child must use a rule such…
Descriptors: Young Children, Thinking Skills, Inferences, Inhibition
Simpson, Andrew; Riggs, Kevin J. – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2005
Gerstadt, Hong, and Diamond (1994) investigated the development of inhibitory control in children aged 3 1/2 - 7 years using the day-night task. In two studies we build on Gerstadt et al.'s findings with a measure of inhibitory control that can be used throughout childhood. In Study 1 (twenty-four 3 1/2-year-olds and sixteen 5-year-olds) we…
Descriptors: Inhibition, Short Term Memory, Children, Task Analysis