Analysis Of The Article, And The Article By Roper, Vecera...

ABTRACT: It is believed that adolescences attention is extremely different to adult attention. However this is not the case and the article by Roper, Vecera and Vidya (2014) clearly highlighted that rewarding stimuli and cognitive process influences the attention between adolescence and adults not the age differences. The researchers outlined the variables of the experiments so the results can be replicated again therefore verify the main argument of this study. The researchers also used comparative study to gain a better understanding as to why age differences did not influence attention in adolescences and adults. Lastly the researchers did not use random selections but used individuals that meet their criteria to find clear correlations between rewarding stimuli and attention between adolescences and adults. By using these three techniques the author of this article was able to clearly show that rewarding stimuli and cognitive processes affected attention in adolescences and adults not the age difference. Roper, Vecera and Vidya (2014) article â€Å"Value –driven attentional capture in adolescence† was written well and made strong correlations between adolescences and adults. The main arguments that was highlighted in this article was that there was a difference in attention between adolescences and adults however it was not the age that influenced each group but it s the rewarding stimuli and cognitive processes that influences the difference in attention between