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LEARNING AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
Volume 18, Issue 2, Pages 214-223Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2007.10.003
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working memory; attention; executive function; reading; mathematics; problem behaviors
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- Economic and Social Research Council [RES-000-23-0979-A] Funding Source: researchfish
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The purpose of this study was to explore the profiles of classroom behaviour relating to attention and executive functions in children with very poor working memory, and to test the hypothesis that inattentive behaviour and working memory problerns co-occur. Teachers rated problem behaviours of 52 children with low working memory scores aged 5/6 and 9/10 years on teacher rating measures of attention and executive function behaviours. The majority of children with low working memory scores obtained atypically high ratings of cognitive problems/ inattentive symptoms, and were judged to have short attention spans, high levels of distractibility, problerns in monitoring the quality of their work, and difficulties in generating new solutions to problems. These results extend previous findings that working memory problems and inattentive behaviour co-occur to a non-clinical sample. It is suggested that reduced working memory capacity may play a causal role in the problem behaviours of these children. (C) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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