Citation

Stamps LE. J. Genet. Psychol. 1988; 149(1): 53-60.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of New Orleans, LA 70148.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1988, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/00221325.1988.10532139

PMID

3373189

Abstract

The Matthews Youth Test for Health (MYTH) was completed by teachers to evaluate 85 fifth- and sixth-grade boys. Type A and B groups of 20 boys each were selected based on MYTH scores. Each boy performed a signalled reaction time task and a perceptual search task. No performance difference was found between the Type A and B boys on the reaction time task. On the perceptual search task, each boy had to scan a set of pictures and report the number of "Snoopy's" seen in each picture. A group difference in response time was found, with the Type A boys having a mean of 5.98 s versus 7.87 for the Type B boys.

Language: en