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Document Description
Title
A
longitudinal
study
of the
impact
of
background
television
on
6-
and
12-month-old
infants'
attention
during
play
Author
Setliff
,
Alissa
E.
,
1972-
Description
Thesis
(Ph.D.)--Memorial
University
of
Newfoundland
,
2010.
Psychology
Date
2010
Pagination
xiii, 118 leaves : ill. (some col.)
Subject
Attention
in
infants;
Television
and
children--Longitudinal
studies;
Degree
Ph.D.
Degree Grantor
Memorial University of Newfoundland. Dept. of Psychology
Discipline
Psychology
Language
Eng
Notes
Includes
bibliographical
references
(leaves
99-115)
Abstract
A
longitudinal
design
was
used
to
determine
the
effect
of
background
television
on
infants'
attention
during
play
with
toys.
Infants
at
both
6
and
12
months
of
age
were
examined
as they
engaged
in
20
minutes
of
free
play
with
multiple
toys.
During
either
the
first
half
or
second
half
of the
experimental
session
,
one
of
thirty
10-minute
television
program
clips
was
presented
on a
television
in the
corner
of the
room.
The
television
programs
were
selected
to
represent
a
range
of
programs
that are not
produced
for an
infant
audience
and that
typically
air
during
the
day.
The
programs
were
grouped
into
three
broad
categories:
children's
educational
programming
,
children's
action
programming
, and
soap
operas.
Infants'
behavior
and
heart-rate
were
recorded
to
determine
attention
to
background
television
and the
influence
of
television
on the
quantity
and
quality
of
attention
to
toys
during
play.
The
results
point
to a
decrease
in
overall
looking
at the
toys
and
mean
look
length
to
toys
in the
presence
of
background
television
,
regardless
of
program
category
and
age.
However
, this
held
for
only
those
infants
who
had an
opportunity
to
play
with the
toys
prior
to the
television
presentation.
The
presence
of
background
television
had a
detrimental
impact
on the
mean
length
of
focused
attention
episodes
during
play
with
toys
for
all
infants
,
regardless
of
order
of
television
presentation.
The
results
suggest
that
perhaps
the
greatest
harm
posed
by
background
television
lies
in its
potential
to
impact
look
length
to
toys.
With the
preponderance
of
background
television
exposure
in the
typical
home
, this
may
have
important
implications
for the
cognitive
development
of
infants.
Type
Text
Resource Type
Electronic
thesis
or
dissertation
Format
Image/jpeg;
Application/pdf
Source
Paper copy kept in the Centre for Newfoundland Studies, Memorial University Libraries
Local Identifier
a3315224
Rights
The author retains copyright ownership and moral rights in this thesis. Neither the thesis nor substantial extracts from it may be printed or otherwise reproduced without the author's permission.
Collection
Electronic
Theses
and
Dissertations
Scanning Status
Completed
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(14.13
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