PSYC 366 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Traumatic Brain Injury

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 366
• Professor: Jodi Bain

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Predominantly-inattentive: the majority of symptoms (6+) are the inattention category and fewer than 6 symptoms of hyperactivity-impulsivity are present, although hyperactivity-impulsivity may still be present to some degree. Children with this subtype are less likely to act out or have difficulties getting along with other children. They may sit quietly, but they are not pay attention to what they are doing. Therefore, the child may be overlooked, and parents and teachers may not notice that he or she had adhd: children with this subtype may struggle with focus, sustaining, or dividing their attention between relevant and irrelevant tasks/details. Combined hyperactive-impulsive and inattentive: 6 or more symptoms of inattention and 6 or more symptoms of hyperactivity-impulsivity are present. (they interrupt, speak without thinking/loudly, restless, fidgety, not sho(cid:449)ing that they"re a(cid:271)le to ha(cid:448)e (cid:271)eha(cid:448)ioural (cid:272)ontrol) Potential causes: genes: results from several international studies show that adhd often runs in families.