Attention and Early Learning a Selected Review

Ames Elinor W. Stimulus complexity and age of infants as determinants of the rate of habituation of visual fixation. Read at Western Psychological Association, Long Beach, California, April, 1966.

Bee Helen L. The relationship between parent-child interaction and distractibility in fourth grade children. Dissertation Abstracts, 1964, 25, 2024–2025.

Berlyne D. E. Attention, perception and behavior theory. Psychol. Rev., 1951, 58, 137–146.

Berlyne D. E. , Borsa Donna M. , Craw Margaret A. , Gelman Rochel S. , and Mandell Elizabeth E. Effects of stimulus complexity and induced arousal on paired-associate learning. J. of verbal Learning and verbal Behavior, 1965, 4, 291–299.

Blum A. H. The relationship between rigidity-flexibility in children and their parents. Child Develpm., 1959, 30, 297–304.

Blum A. H. Training for number concept. Unpublished manuscript.

Blum A. H. , and Broverman D. M. Children's cognitive style and response modification. J. genet. Psychol., 1967, 110, 95–103.

Bouthillette G. N. The effects of social stimuli, aural distraction and task design on performance and physiological response in children. Dissertation Abstracts, 1962, 23, 296.

Brennen Wendy , Ames Elinor W. , and Moore R. W. Age differences in infants’ attention to patterns of different complexities. Science, 1966, 151, 354–356.

Broadbent D. E. Attention and the perception of speech. Scient. Amer., 1962, 206, 143–151.

Brown N. Attention: A theoretical note. J. Gen. Psychol., 1960, 62, 103–111.

Canon L. K. Motivational state, stimulus selection and distractibility. Child Develpm., 1967, 38, 589–596.

Carpenter Genevieve , and Stechler G. Development of attention and excitement in response to human and non-human stimuli during the first eight weeks of life. Submitted to SRCD for March, 1967.

Carterette E. C. , and Jones Margaret H. Visual and auditory information processing in children and adults. Science, 1967, 156, 986–989.

Deese J. Some problems in the theory of vigilance. Psychol. Rev., 1955, 62, 359–368.

Fantz R. L. The origin of form perception. Scient. Amer., 1961, 204, 66–72.

Fantz R. L. Pattern discrimination and selective attention as determinants of perceptual development from birth. In Kidd A. H. , and Rivoire J. eds., Perceptual development in children. New York: International Univ. Press, 1966.

Fantz R. L. Studying visual perception and the effects of visual exposure in early infancy. Rassegna di Psicologia generale e clinica, 1964–65, 7, 1–15.

Farrow B. J. Altering autokinetic perception in children through reinforcement of spatial concepts and attention. Dissertation Abstracts, 1965, 26, 2335–2336.

Fisch R. I. , and McNamara H. J. Conditioning of attention as a factor in perceptual learning. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1963, 17, 891–907.

Gardner R. W. , and Long R. I. Cognitive controls of attention and inhibition: A study of individual consistencies. Brit. J. Psychol., 1962, 53, 381–388.

Hagen J. W. The effect of distraction on selective attention. Child Develpm., 1967, 38, 685–694.

Hendrickson Lois N. , and Muehl S. The effect of attention and motor response pretraining of learning to discriminate b and d in kindergarten children. J. educ. Psychol., 1962, 53, 236–241.

Kagan J. , and Lewis M. Studies of attention in the human infant. Merrill-Palmer Quart., 1965, 11, 95–127.

Kagan J. , and Rosman Bernice L. Cardiac and respiratory correlates of attention and an analytic attitude. J. exper. Child Psychol., 1964, 1, 50–63.

Kagan J. , Rosman Bernice L. , Day Deborah , Albert J. , and Phillips W. Information processing in the child: Significance of analytic and reflective attitudes. Psychol. Monogr., 1964, 78, No. 1 (Whole No. 578).

Katz Phyllis , and Deutsch M. Relation of auditory-visual shifting to reading achievement. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1963, 17, 327–332.

Lewis M. , Campbell Helen , Bartels Betty , and Fadel Diane Infants’ responses to facial stimuli during the first year of life. Shorter version read at APA, Chicago, 1965.

Lewis M. , Meyers W. J. , Kagan J. , and Grossberg Ruth Attention to visual patterns in infants. Read at APA, Philadelphia, 1963.

Moyer K. E. , and Gilmer B. V. H. Attention spans of children for experimentally designed toys. J. Genet. Psychol., 1955, 87, 187–201.

Moyer K. E. , and Gilmer B. V. H. The concept of attention spans in children. Elem. School J., 1954, 54, 464–466.

Piaget J. Psychology of Intelligence. Paterson, N.J.: Littlefield, Adams & Co., 1963.

Santos J. F. , Farrow B. J. , and Haines J. R. How attention influences what is perceived; some experimental evidence. Bull. Menninger Clinic, 1963, 27, 3–14.

Silverman M. , Davids A. , and Andrews Jean M. Powers of attention and academic achievement. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1963, 17, 243–249.

Stechler G. S. , and Latz Elizabeth Some observations on attention and arousal in the human infant. J. of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 1966, 5, 517–525.

Stennett R. G. The relationship of performance level to level of arousal. J. exp. Psychol., 1957, 54, 54–61.

Tecce J. J. , and Happ Susan J. Effects of shock-arousal on a card sorting test of color-word interference. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1964, 19, 905–906.

Walters R. H. Conditioning of attention as a source of autistic effects in perception. J. Abn. Soc. Psychol., 1958, 57, 197–201.

Werner H. Comparative Psychology of Mental Development. New York, Science Editions, 1948.

Wolff P. H. The development of attention in young infants. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1965, 118, 815–830.

Wolff P. H. , and White B. L. Visual pursuit and attention in young infants. J. of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 1965, 4, 473–484.