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COGNITIVE CONTROLS OF ATTENTION AND INHIBITION: A STUDY OF INDIVIDUAL CONSISTENCIES *
Author(s) -
GARDNER RILEY W.,
LONG ROBERT I.
Publication year - 1962
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1962.tb00843.x
Subject(s) - psychology , cognition , set (abstract data type) , cognitive psychology , control (management) , selective attention , differential (mechanical device) , attentional control , differential effects , developmental psychology , neuroscience , management , computer science , economics , programming language , medicine , engineering , aerospace engineering
Results of a previous study (Gardner, 1961) suggested that independent principles of cognitive control are involved in ( a ) extensiveness and ( b ) selectiveness of attention deployment. The present study extends these results by demonstrating that differential predictions can be made even when criterion scores for the two control principles are obtained from a single set of judgements. It is also shown that individual differences in selective attention can be observed whether compelling irrelevant stimuli enclose, are enclosed by, or are interpolated among relevant stimuli, and that two forms of inhibition—extensiveness of scanning and inhibition of irrelevant motoric responses—may be associated.