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Focused attention in pervasively hyperactive children.

J van der Meere¹, J Sergeant

¹Laboratory of Experimental Clinical Psychology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology

|December 1, 1988

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Hyperactive children did not show a focused attention deficit in a task requiring information processing. While their performance was more variable, this was not linked to distractibility but potentially other factors.

Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Developmental Psychology
Neuroscience

Background:

Hyperactivity is often associated with attention deficits.
Shiffrin and Schneider's model defines focused attention as inhibiting irrelevant information.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the distractibility of hyperactive children in a focused attention task.
To determine if hyperactive children have a focused attention deficit.

Main Methods:

Children performed a focused attention task with and without irrelevant information.
Task efficiency was measured by reaction time, response variability, and error rates.

Main Results:

All children showed decreased task efficiency with irrelevant information.

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Hyperactive children and controls did not differ in task efficiency during distraction.

Hyperactive children made more errors and responded more variably than controls, but errors correlated with IQ.

Conclusions:

A focused attention deficit was not demonstrated in hyperactive children.
Variable responding in hyperactives may stem from performance state, not distractibility.