The Influence of Adult- Versus Child-Directed Television Programs on Distractibility in Preschoolers

摘要: Research in the field on children's attention to television has suggested that discerning between two different types of programming is crucial for understanding how children attend TV. Child-directed television consists programs designed with purpose are the intended viewers. In contrast, adult-directed not designed for children; these are directed toward an older audience. The current study investigated divided their attention between cognitive tasks and a distractor. distractor was either TV program, child-directed TV program, or there was no results revealed the both distractors reduced children's ability sustain to the compared child-directed distractor significantly held total away from the longer than distractor no distractor. These have implications television should be monitored home preschool environments.