Individual Differences in Preschool Aged Children's Inhibitory Control: Adding Borders to the Day/Night Task

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dc.contributor.authorRoss, Alleyne Patriciaen
dc.contributor.committeechairBell, Martha Annen
dc.contributor.committeememberDeater-Deckard, Kirbyen
dc.contributor.committeememberDiana, Rachel A.en
dc.contributor.departmentPsychologyen
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-13T19:43:53Zen
dc.date.adate2016-07-01en
dc.date.available2017-06-13T19:43:53Zen
dc.date.issued2016-04-28en
dc.date.rdate2016-07-01en
dc.date.sdate2016-05-03en
dc.description.abstractInhibitory control is vital to typical development and matures rapidly throughout early childhood. Inhibitory control deficits are seen in both autism spectrum disorders and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and, along with other executive functions, inhibitory control contributes to school success. The tasks used to measure and stress these skills in children have not been fully explored. Even given the cognitive development levels of young children, the current inhibitory control tasks for preschoolers are not completely comparable to the tasks used with adults. For my thesis study, I added a mixed condition to the day/night inhibitory control task in preschool children using methodological design features from the Dimensional Change Card Sort (DCCS) Task. This addition allowed the day/night task to serve as a better analogue to the Stroop task, which is an inhibitory control task commonly used with adults. In addition, electroencephalogram (EEG) illuminated the neural patterns of the task in children at age four. This study demonstrated that the borders condition of the day/night task is an appropriate executive function task that can be used with preschool aged children.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.identifier.otheretd-05032016-104632en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05032016-104632/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/78096en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectInhibitory controlen
dc.subjectexecutive functionen
dc.subjectworking memoryen
dc.subjectEEGen
dc.titleIndividual Differences in Preschool Aged Children's Inhibitory Control: Adding Borders to the Day/Night Tasken
dc.typeThesisen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplinePsychologyen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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