Article: The impact of spatial cues on preschoolers' selective attention.

DIRECT ASSESSMENTS OF CHILDREN' S selective attention and attention strategies have primarily relied on the selective memory task developed by Miller and her colleagues (Miller & Weiss, 1981). This task is a derivation of an incidental learning task developed by Hagen (1967) and based within the incidental learning paradigm that was used extensively during the mid-1960s and 1970s to study children's selective attention. The major assumption of this task is that selective attention involves greater learning about relevant information and less learning about irrelevant information. More recently, Miller and her colleagues used this task to examine children's selective ...

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