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DIFFERENCES IN TRACKING SKILL AND PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL ACTIVATION DYNAMICS IN CHILDREN HIGH OR LOW IN PERSISTENCE IN SCHOOLWORK
Author(s) -
Dureman Ingmar,
Pålshammar ÅKe
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
psychophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.661
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1469-8986
pISSN - 0048-5772
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1970.tb02279.x
Subject(s) - persistence (discontinuity) , skin conductance , psychology , heart rate , developmental psychology , audiology , session (web analytics) , tracking (education) , medicine , blood pressure , pedagogy , geotechnical engineering , world wide web , computer science , biomedical engineering , engineering
Seven children (9–10 years) rated by their schoolteachers as high in persistence (HP) and seven rated as low in persistence (LP) were compared in a simulated car‐driving situation with a risk‐taking game component. Increased reward was paid for every consecutive two minutes that they managed to drive without making more than five “off the road” errors within each of four ten‐minute periods. More than five errors meant loss of accumulated reward, and the situation thus was meant to evoke a kind of temporal approach‐avoidance conflict. Heart rate, skin conductance, and respiratory rate were recorded throughout the session. The LP children made significantly more “off the road” errors than the HP children during the four driving periods. They also had significantly lower skin conductance levels and lower respiratory rates during the work periods, as well as a suggested difference in the pattern of change in skin conductance.