Age Effects on the Development of Stimulus Over-Selectivity Are Mediated by Cognitive Flexibility and Selective Attention

Autor/inn/en	Kelly, Michelle P.; Reed, Phil
Titel	Age Effects on the Development of Stimulus Over-Selectivity Are Mediated by Cognitive Flexibility and Selective Attention
Quelle	In: International Journal of Behavioral Development, 45 (2021) 1, S.89-96 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Kelly, Michelle P.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0165-0254
DOI	10.1177/0165025420949702
Schlagwörter	Age Differences; Attention Control; Visual Discrimination; Task Analysis; Preschool Children; Young Children; Child Development; Developmental Stages; Cognitive Ability; Correlation; Foreign Countries; Tests; Ireland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Aufmerksamkeitstest; Aufgabenanalyse; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Frühe Kindheit; Kindesentwicklung; Denkfähigkeit; Korrelation; Ausland; Examination; Prüfung; Examen; Irland
Abstract	Stimulus over-selectivity is said to have occurred when only a limited subset of the total number of stimuli present during discrimination learning controls behavior, thus, restricting learning about the range, breadth, or all features of a stimulus. The current study investigated over-selectivity of 100 typically developing children, aged 3-7 (mean = 65.50 ± 17.31 SD months), using a visual discrimination task. Developmental trends in over-selectivity and their relationship to some cognitive variables (i.e., selective attention, sustained attention, and cognitive flexibility) were the target. Over-selectivity decreased with age, but this effect was mediated by the development of cognitive flexibility. Over-selectivity increased when a distractor task was introduced, which was not mediated by the other cognitive variables under investigation. The current results assist in the establishment of the theoretical underpinnings of over-selectivity by offering evidence of its underlying determinants and relating these to developmental trends. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01