PSY 30312 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Motor Coordination, Learning Disability
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Cognitive deficits: children with adhd display deficits in executive functioning, intellectual deficits, impairments in academic functioning, learning disorders, and distorted self-perceptions: executive functioning: cognitive processes in the brain that activate, integrate, and manage other brain functions. Underlie the (cid:272)hild"s (cid:272)apa(cid:272)it(cid:455) for self-regulation functions such as self-awareness, planning, self-monitoring, and self-evaluation. Efs are varied to include: cognitive processes: includes, working memory: holding facts in mind while manipulating information, mental computation, planning and anticipation. Most children, but not all, with adhd show deficits in one or more efs, especially response inhibition, vigilance, working memory, and planning. Differ in the type of ef deficit that they display. ** impairments in ef = key deficit in adhd ** However, ef deficits are not uniquely associated with adhd also occur in children with other disorders. These tests include subsets related to specific deficits of children with adhd example= working memory.
