Describe how attention develops in middle childhood. Support your answer with research findings.
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. Selective attention-focusing on relevant information and ignoring irrelevant information-improves from early to middle childhood.
2. For example, background noise causes more problems for young children than adults when listening to a story.
3. Executive attention-maintaining focused attention across the changing conditions of a task and inhibiting competing responses-improves in middle childhood.
4. A "go-no-go" study using an MRI scanner showed that children became able to maintain focused attention and inhibit inappropriate responses more efficiently between ages 9 and 11.
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