The Role Of Selective Attention In Interference Control Of Children

Interference control is the core of executive function(EF), refers to the ability to inhibit the useless stimulus when pursuing goals, which has an important role in cooperating with mul-processes to complete a certain task. Impulse, unwilling to be preeminence, and losing activity may be owe to the deficiency of Interference control. Some studies in developmental psychology argued that interference control is a central stable component of human intelligence, involved in difference aspects of cognition across infant to the elderly. The individual differences of interference control could predict the behavioral standard and embedded status of altruism in toddlers, preschoolers, schoolchildren, even adults, the fellowship and school achievement, and marriage life and career success.Selective attention refers to the cognition process to select the specific information, and ignore others. Many researches suggested that selective attention is an important mechanism of interference control. Researchers have a full realization of selective attention in cognitive neuropsychology, however, there are few studies exploring how selective attention influences individual, especially children, making decision and their behavior. Furthermore, these studies generally were in pure cognition, not consider affect factor.Therefore, it is necessary to exploring: (1) the influence of affection to selective attention in interference control tasks; (2) how much selective attention influences children's performance. This research used Smaries task and its modifications to explore: (1) how "motivational-affective" factor changes selective attention and interference control; (2) children's performance influenced...