Psychology 2042A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Impulse Control Disorder, Mood Disorder, Voluntary Action
22 Jan 2020
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Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (adhd) is exhibited as persistent age-inappropriate symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity that are sufficient to cause impairment in major life activities must cause impairment for diagnosis. Mass majority of child mental health are boys with impulse disorders: girls more for mood disorder. Characteristic behaviors vary considerably from child to child. Different behavior patterns may have different causes. Your text gives a history of observations of poor impulse control in children. Here is a quote found in the very first psychology textbook ever written: called hyperkinesis. It is the taking possession by the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought. It implies withdrawal from some things in order to deal effectively with others. " Voluntary action, then, is at all times a resultant of the compounding of our impulsions with our inhibitions.
