Attention in early development themes and variations
1. Introduction. 2. Constructs and Measures. 3. Looking and Visual Attention: Overview and Developmental Framework. 4. Scanning, Searching, and Shifting Attention. 5. Development of Selectivity. 6. Development of Attention as a State. 7. Focused Visual Attention and Resistance to Distraction. 8. Inc...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
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New York :
Oxford University Press
2001, c1996.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- 1. Introduction
- Our Approach to Attention
- Development of Attention
- Individuality and Development
- Organization of the Book
- 2. Constructs and Measures
- Attention as Selectivity
- Selection of Objects and Locations
- Selection of Attributes Within an Object
- Attention as State
- Behavioral Measures
- Physiological Measures
- Attention as Executive Control
- Voluntary Attention
- Limited Capacity
- Automatic versus Controlled Processes
- Summary
- 3. Looking and Visual Attention: Overview and Developmental Framework
- Looking in the Newborn
- The Transition at 2 to 3 months
- Social Implications of the 2- to 3-Month Shift
- Processes Underlying the Transition at 2 to 3 Months
- Looking and the Development of the First Attention System
- The Transition at 9 to 12 Months
- Developmental Changes in Looking
- Changes in Other Domains
- Processes Underlying the Transition at 9 Months
- Consolidation of the Second Attention System and the Transition at 18 Months
- Developments in Patterns of Looking
- The 18-Month Transition
- Processes Underlying the 18-Month Transition
- The Preschool Years and Increasing Control of Attention
- Behavioral Evidence
- Processes Underlying Development from 2 to 5 Years
- Summary
- 4. Scanning, Searching, and Shifting Attention
- Shifting Attention
- Scanning
- Shifting Attention Between Events
- Visual Search and Expectation
- Nonobservable Shifts of Attention
- Summary
- 5. Development of Selectivity
- Changing Visual Preferences in the First Few Months
- A Shift from Quantitative to More Qualitative Bases for Selection
- Neural Underpinnings for the Shift in Selectivity at 2 to 3 Months
- Selection Based on Perceptual Experience
- Selection of Novel Objects and Events
- Selection of Novel Locations
- Selection Based on Motivational Relevance.
- Social and Emotional Consequences of People
- Selection Based on What Is Relevant to New Motor Skills
- Selecting What Others Select
- Summary
- 6. Development of Attention as a State
- Engagement and Disengagement of Attention
- Initiation
- Engagement
- Disengagement and Termination of Attention
- Factors that Sustain Engagement
- Arousal
- Cognitive Factors
- Mutual Influences of Attention and Other States
- Summary
- 7. Focused Visual Attention and Resistance to Distraction
- General Conceptual Issues
- Framework for Development
- Orienting/Investigative System
- System of Higher Level Control
- Development of Two Systems of Attention
- Implications for Distractibility
- Conceptual Issues in the Study of Distractibility
- Common Mechanisms
- Developmental Changes in Mechanisms
- Can Distractors Help Performance?
- Summary
- 8. Increasing Independence in the Control of Attention
- Adult as Regulator
- The Role of the Parent in State Control
- Shared Attention to Objects
- Cultural Influences
- The Shift from Other-Regulation to Self-Regulation
- Increased Awareness of Attention in Self and Others
- The Role of Changing Motivations
- Volitional Skills
- Summary
- 9. Attention in Learning and Performance
- Learning and Performance as Defining Aspects of Attention
- Does Attention Enhance Learning and Performance?
- Behavioral Evidence for the Role of Focused Attention
- Physiological Differentiation
- Specific Types of Learning
- Discrimination Learning
- Sequence Learning
- Observational Learning
- Attention and Practice of New Skills
- Practice of Emerging Motor Skills
- Attention to Emerging Cognitive Skills
- Effort Involved in Emerging Use of Strategies
- Summary
- 10. Individual Differences in Attention
- Studying Individual Differences
- Individual Differences in Aspects of Attention.
- Reactivity
- Sustained Visual Attention
- Focused Attention
- Related Dimensions of Individuality
- Motor Activity
- Higher Level Control of Impulses
- Attention and Emotionality
- Summary
- 11. Early Manifestations of Attention Deficits
- Attention Deficits in School-Age Children
- Excess Motor Activity and Attention
- Relating Disorders to Different Processes
- Possible Precursors of Attention Deficits with Hyperactivity
- Early Signs of Hyperactivity
- Developmental Patterns
- Precursors to Attention Deficits Without Hyperactivity
- Attention Deficits in Other Conditions
- Infants with Regulatory Disorders
- Impaired Attention in Autistic Children in Social Situations
- Underlying Deviations in Early Attention Deficits
- Attention Deficit as Neurodevelopmental Lag
- A Temperament Approach to Attention Deficits
- Hypotheses About Optimal Arousal Level
- Imbalances of Activation and Inhibition
- Summary
- 12. Individuality and Development
- Origins of Individual Differences
- Early Biological Variation
- Environment as a Contributor
- An Interactionist Approach to Individual Differences
- The Development of Attention Deficits
- Biological Bases
- Social Contributions to Developmental Patterns
- Individual Profiles of Development
- Summary
- 13. Recapitulation
- Development
- Individual Differences
- The Larger Context
- References
- Author Index
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