Explain the psychological and social factors associated with ADHD.
What will be an ideal response?
Key terms and concepts that maybe included in student responses:
? Children with ADHD are more likely than children without a psychological disorder to belong to families that experience frequent disruptions and in which the parents are prone to aggressive and hostile behavior and substance abuse.
? Some of these associations may be due to shared genetic effects on impulsivity and cognitive problems, which lead to both the parental behaviors and ADHD in children.
? However, it appears that genetic factors in ADHD prompt disruptive behavior in children and, in turn, hostile parenting, even in adoptive (i.e., genetically unrelated) parents.
? Family interaction patterns, especially in early childhood, influence the course and severity of ADHD, including the development of conduct problems.
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If a baseball player who has been in a batting slump for several weeks alters his batting stance and wears a new batting glove one day and gets three hits, the cognitive explanation of conditioning suggests that for the next game, the baseball player will continue to
a. experiment with another batting stance and batting glove. b. use the new batting stance. c. use the new batting glove. d. use both the new batting stance and new batting glove.
Which of these doesn't involve genetic abnormalities?
a. Cultural-familial retardation b. Down syndrome c. Fragile-X syndrome d. Phenulketonuria
As discussed in the text, there are three types of beliefs that help people to function effectively in the social world, and that are often cast into doubt when people experience violent crimes or other traumas. Which statement is one of these?
a. "The world is just random." b. "Life is without meaning." c. "I deserve what I get." d. "I am a good person."
Clifford the cat can move his accessory structures for hearing to help him localize the source of even a very faint sound. In other words, unlike most humans, Clifford can move his ____.?
a. ?basilar membrane b. ?stapes c. ?pinnae d. ?organs of Corti