Effect of Noise Distractibility on the Spans of Apprehension of Hyperactive Boys

Overview

Journal J Abnorm Child Psychol

Publisher Springer

Date 1978 Dec 1

PMID 730969

Citations 2

Authors

C W McIntyre

S L Blackwell

C L Denton

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Abstract

Denton and McIntyre (1978), using a forced-choice letter-recognition procedure, demonstrated increasing reductions in the spans of apprehension of hyperactive as compared to normal boys when a signal letter was embedded within an increasing number of noise letters. In the present study, the effect of variations in the amount of physical signal-noise similarity and noise redundancy upon the spans of apprehension of hyperactive and normal boys was compared to determine whether noise letters act as more potent distractors for the hyperactive boys. Results indicated the spans of both groups were effected equivalently by variations in signal-noise similarity and noise redundancy. No evidence for a distractibility explanation was obtained.

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