Individual Differences in Inhibitory Control Skills at Three Years of Age

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dc.contributor.authorWatson, Amanda Joyceen
dc.contributor.committeechairBell, Martha Annen
dc.contributor.committeememberWhite, Bradley A.en
dc.contributor.committeememberDeater-Deckard, Kirbyen
dc.contributor.departmentPsychologyen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T21:34:15Zen
dc.date.adate2011-05-18en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T21:34:15Zen
dc.date.issued2011-04-15en
dc.date.rdate2012-04-15en
dc.date.sdate2011-04-18en
dc.description.abstractSeventy-three children participated in an investigation of inhibitory control (IC) at 3 years of age. Child IC was measured under various conditions in order to determine the impact that nonverbal and/or motivational task demands had on child IC task performance. Furthermore, task performance was examined with respect to measures of language, temperament, and psychophysiology. Tasks showed different patterns of relations to each of these variables. Furthermore, performance on the Hand Game, our measure of nonverbal IC, was explained by frontal EEG activity and, surprisingly, by language abilities. In contrast, performance on two other IC tasks, Day-Night and Less is More, was not related to measures of language or frontal EEG, perhaps because children performed at chance level on these tasks, indicating that these tasks may be too difficult for 3-year-old children. Implications of these findings are discussed.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.identifier.otheretd-04182011-144100en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-04182011-144100/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/42162en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartWatson_AJ_T_2011.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectInhibitory controlen
dc.subjectEEGen
dc.subjectDevelopmental cognitive neuroscienceen
dc.subjectEarly childhooden
dc.titleIndividual Differences in Inhibitory Control Skills at Three Years of Ageen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplinePsychologyen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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