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Title

Attention in early development : themes and variations / Holly Alliger Ruff and Mary Klevjord Rothbart.

Author

Ruff, Holly Alliger.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

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Additional Authors

Rothbart, Mary Klevjord.

Description

xv, 294 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• This book provides both a review of the literature and a theoretical framework for understanding the development of visual attention from infancy through early childhood. The authors discuss the development of selective and state-related aspects of attention in infants and young children, as well as the emergence of higher-level controls on attention. They also explore individual differences in attention and consider the possible origins of childhood deficits in attention.
• The reviews of research and the theoretical discussion will be invaluable to developmental, cognitive, and clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, and professionals involved in early education, and this work can be a useful text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in education and psychology.

Subject

• Attention in children
• Child development
• Attention > Child
• Child Development

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-279) and indexes.

Contents

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. Increasing Independence in the Control of Attention -- 9. Attention in Learning and Performance -- 10. Individual Differences in Attention -- 11. Early Manifestations of Attention Deficits -- 12. Individuality and Development -- 13. Recapitulation.

ISBN

0195071433(alk. paper) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

95033048

OCLC

ocm32824006

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Columbia University Libraries