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A theory-based nutrition program was delivered over 12-weeks to children who participated in a local housing authority's after-school program. The program aimed to improve child self-efficacy to eat fruits and vegetables. Pre-and post-measures of self- efficacy were collected to observe any differences in child confidence in fruit and vegetable consumption. Single-sample t-tests revealed non-statistically significant greater self-efficacy scores for participating children (n=37) at post-test (M = 24.47, SD = 5.75) compared to pre-test (M = 21.64, SD = 5.38), t(16) = 2.031, p = .059, Cohen's D = 0.51, r = 0.25). However, 3 of the 6 scale items had significantly higher mean scores, indicating the program successfully increase some aspects of child self-efficacy for fruit and vegetable consumption. In conclusion, the after-school program showed promise for larger-scale programs to impact self-efficacy to consume fruits and vegetables among children from low-income, minority families. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Previous reports suggest that introducing distracting visual transients during a change-detection task can result in change blindness. In four experiments, we found that presenting the distracting transients repeatedly prior to the change produces a recovery from change blindness. This recovery from change blindness is not due solely to low-level neural adaptation of transient detectors, but instead seems to be based on attentional filtering of the distracting transient signals. This attentional filtering can be object-based rather than location-based. In addition, we found that the ability to achieve this attentional filtering depends critically on presenting the to-be-ignored transient signals prior to the time of the change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]