PSYCH 3CD3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Abusive Power And Control, Executive Functions, Impulsivity

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 3CD3
• Professor: Geoffrey Hall

Document Summary

Sustained attention ability to stay focused for a period of time. Involves monitoring a continuous stimulus set for the occurrence of a target. Omission missing the stimulus, not detecting it when it occurs, part of this is inattention. Commission falsely identifying stimulus, indicate an impulsive response. About 50% of children with adhd have motor incoordination. Show a full range as in normal developing children. Deficiencies in everyday behaviour: they know how, but the performance side is hard. Rates of adhd in u. s. school children 3-7% Deficit in temporal processing: impacts ability to estimate time. Aversion to delay: attempt to escape the wait, may flip from one activity to the next. Deficits in higher order skills (require planning, organizing, etc. ) Barkley"s model: considers response inhibition central to model, behavioural inhibition interacts with 4 other executive functions. Triple pathway model: executive deficits, delay aversion, temporal processing *new. Have smaller: right frontal cortices, caudate nucleus, globus palidus.