The development of children's knowledge about attentional focus

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ID9787133
AuthorsJohn H Flavell (Stanford Medicine, corresponding author), Frances L Green, Eleanor R Flavell
Year1995
Volume31
Issue4
Pages706-712
Publication date1995-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueDevelopmental Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0012-1649 • E-ISSN: 1939-0599
PublisherAmerican Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1037//0012-1649.31.4.706
OpenAlexW4230613072
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited5

Children of 4, 6, and 8 years of age were tested for their understanding that a person who is mentally focused on one thing will be devoting little or no simultaneous attention or thought to another, totally irrelevant thing. For example, while one is busy trying to recognize the people in a group photograph or recall the movies one has seen recently, one will likely not also be thinking about the photograph's drab frame in the first case or one's piano in the second. Whereas most of the 6- and 8-year-olds demonstrated an understanding that task-oriented thought and attention are selectively focused in this way, most of the 4-year-olds showed no such understanding

Attentional control · Child development · Childhood development · Cognition · Cognitive development · Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Focus (optics · Incidental learning · Recall · Task (project management · Child and Animal Learning Development · Educational Games and Gamification · Educational Strategies and Epistemologies · Neuroscience · Psychology · Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes

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