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... Existing data suggest that physically abused children overextend to angry expressions, but the intentional mechanisms underlying such behavior are unknown. The authors tested 8–11-year-old physically abused children to determine whether they displayed specific information-processing problems in a selective attention paradigm using emotional faces as cues. Physically abused children demonstrated delayed disengagement when angry faces served as invalid cues. Abused children also demonstrated increased intentional benefits on valid angry trials. ...
Integrated review of five articles
Hypothesis
The primary hypothesis of the present study concerns the effects of physical abuse on selective attention, physically abused children are expected to expend more processing resources disengaging from angry cues than are control children. ... In keeping with prior research, all children are expected to respond faster to valid as compared with invalid cues as well as to display increased amplitudes of the target-evoked component; these results would be consistent with an early processing advantage targets for valid
Article Review
The sample consisted of 14 physically abused and 14 non-abused children ranging in age from 8 to 11 years.
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