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Developmental and Individual Differences in Children's On‐Line Representations of Dynamic Social Events
Author(s) -
MilchReich Shoulamit,
Campbell Susan B.,
Pelham, Jr. William E.,
Connelly Lynda M.,
Geva Diklah
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
child development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.103
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1467-8624
pISSN - 0009-3920
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8624.00030
Subject(s) - psychology , recall , developmental psychology , social cognition , cognition , cognitive psychology , psychiatry
Developmental and clinical differences in children's on‐line understanding of ongoing social events were examined. Boys with ( n = 38) and without ( n = 41) Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) were compared. Prior social schemes and integrative processes were hypothesized to influence children's representation of incoming social cues. Younger children and children with ADHD were expected to differ from older children and children without ADHD, respectively, in what they encoded and how they organized the encoded information. Differences in on‐line representation were postulated to underlie differences in children's recall and social reasoning. Children's prior social schemes, looking time and on‐line verbal protocols, recall, and social reasoning were assessed. Younger boys and ADHD boys showed less integrated on‐line representations, accounting for poorer recall and reasoning.