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- Title
Visual information-processing speed in reflective and impulsive children.
- Authors
Weiner, Alan S.; Weiner, A S
- Abstract
A backward-masking procedure was used to measure the rate of visual information processing in 8- and 10-year-old reflective and impulsive children. The test stimulus (TS) and the masking stimulus (MS) which followed it were presented tachistoscopically. The subject's information-processing threshold was defined as the next highest TS-MS interval above the interval where at least 3 of the 4 TSs were incorrectly identified. Reflective children were significantly faster than impulsive children at processing information. This finding was related to research indicating that reflective and impulsive children employ similar cognitive strategies; it was suggested that performance differences between these children might be related to reflective children employing their strategies with more adequate information.
- Subjects
BACKWARD masking; INFORMATION processing; CHILDREN; COGNITION; SENSORY perception; PERFORMANCE; AGE distribution; BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE studies; DISCRIMINATION (Sociology); RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL cooperation; REACTION time; RESEARCH; SHORT-term memory; VISUAL perception; EVALUATION research
- Publication
Child Development, 1975, Vol 46, Issue 4, p998
- ISSN
0009-3920
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.2307/1128412