Cultural determinations on the auditory split-span technique of selective attention.
Cultural differences in selective attention among Ibo and Yoruba adolescents of Nigeria were examined with the auditory split-span technique. It was predicted that Yoruba would perform better than Ibo in a task involving auditory discrimination of digits alternated with letters. A group of 200 16-year-old boys and girls was randomly drawn from four secondary schools of both ethnic groups to represent a wide range of socioenconomic environments. Factorial analysis and analysis of variance showed no significant differences and did not substantiate the hypothesis. Theoretical implications of the findings were elaborated.
D000293:Adolescent; D001288:Attention; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D003469:Culture; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D005006:Ethnicity; D006801:Humans; D009549:Nigeria; D013067:Speech Perception