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CHILDREN'S VIGILANCE PERFORMANCE AND INATTENTIVENESS IN THE CLASSROOM
Author(s) -
Kupietz Samuel S.,
Richardson Ellis
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1978.tb00455.x
Subject(s) - vigilance (psychology) , psychology , developmental psychology , continuous performance task , cognition , audiology , cognitive psychology , medicine , neuroscience
Summary The current study was conducted in order to test the hypothesis that vigilance performance is related to children's attentiveness in a classroom setting. Sixteen children were administered an auditory and visual vigilance task, and their performance related to their “off‐task” behavior in the classroom. In addition, the relationship of vigilance performance to teacher ratings of the children's behavior, and to reading achievement scores was also assessed. Vigilance errors (omission and commission errors) were significantly positively correlated with off‐task behavior, but were only weakly correlated with the other two variables. The findings support the general hypothesis that vigilance performance relates to a child's ability to remain attentive in the classroom.