PSYCH 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Gene-Environment Correlation, Statistical Model, Impulsivity
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Fidgets, squirms; leaves seat; runs about, climbs excessively; difficulty with quiet play; on the go / driven by a motor ; talks excessively; blurts out answers; difficulty awaiting turn; interrupts, butts in. Cognitive forms of impulsivity are harder to measure. These are the symptoms of being a 3-4 year old boy, have to know how old a kid is who is having these symptoms to compare them to other kids of the same gender and age. Adhd is a syndrome, not a disorder, there"s no unifying cause. Children"s self-report are not helpful/objective measures vs. peer reports. Not an attention deficit, it"s a attention misallocation (ie. have trouble listening to a lecture, but doesn"t have a problem focusing and playing video games for hours) Statistical model - where are you on the bell curve (of same gender) at what age. Where you draw the cutoff line is arbitrary.
