A pattern of aggressive, disruptive behavior.

Behaviors of distractibility, forced responsiveness to stimuli, and hyperactivity; based on the work of Alfred Strauss and Heinz Werner with children with disabilities.

Condition characterized by paralysis, weakness, lack of coordination, and motor dysfunction. Caused by damage to the brain before it has developed.

Hyperactive Child Syndrome

Children who exhibit inattention, impulsivity, and/or hyperactivity.

Describes a child who shows behavioral but not neurological signs of a brain injury.

Chemicals that help in the sending of messages between neurons in the brain.

Neurotransmitter, the levels in people with ADHD are abnormal.

The study of molecules that regulate genetic information

Agents that can cause malformations in the developing fetus of a pregnant woman.

Executive Functioning

A number of processes involved in controlling and regulating behavior.

Behavioral Inhibition

The ability to delay a response; interrupt an ongoing response, if the response is deemed inappropriate because of sudden changes demands of a task; or protects a response from distracting or competing stimuli.

Sluggish Cognitive Tempo

constellation of behaviors such as staring into space, feeling drowsy during the day, losing train of thought, getting lost in thoughts, tiring easily, forgetting what was going to say, feeling confused, spacing out, feeling mixed up, and daydreaming.

Adaptive Behavior skills

Skills needed to adapt to one's living environment.

Functional Behavior Assessment

Tool teachers use with students who have emotional or behavioral disorders.

Contingency-based self-management

people keep track of their own behavior and receive rewards and consequences based on their behavior.

Evaluation method designed to test performance in the curriculum to the students are exposed to.

stimulate or activate neurological functioning.

Non-stimulant prescribed for ADHD

Most common stimulant prescribed for ADHD

Paradoxical effect of Ritalin

When Ritalin makes patients react in the opposite of what would be expected.

Difficulty in keeping train of thought because of thinking about something other than what they are doing.

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Kyndall Carroll Ch 7

Term	Definition
Conduct Disorder	A pattern of aggressive, disruptive behavior.
Strauss Syndrome	Behaviors of distractibility, forced responsiveness to stimuli, and hyperactivity; based on the work of Alfred Strauss and Heinz Werner with children with disabilities.
Cerebral Palsy	Condition characterized by paralysis, weakness, lack of coordination, and motor dysfunction. Caused by damage to the brain before it has developed.
Hyperactive Child Syndrome	Children who exhibit inattention, impulsivity, and/or hyperactivity.
Minimal Brain Injury	Describes a child who shows behavioral but not neurological signs of a brain injury.
Neurotransmitters	Chemicals that help in the sending of messages between neurons in the brain.
Dopamine	Neurotransmitter, the levels in people with ADHD are abnormal.
Norepinphrine	Neurotransmitter, the levels in people with ADHD are abnormal.
`Molecular Genetics	The study of molecules that regulate genetic information
Toxins	Agents that can cause malformations in the developing fetus of a pregnant woman.
Executive Functioning	A number of processes involved in controlling and regulating behavior.
Behavioral Inhibition	The ability to delay a response; interrupt an ongoing response, if the response is deemed inappropriate because of sudden changes demands of a task; or protects a response from distracting or competing stimuli.
Sluggish Cognitive Tempo	constellation of behaviors such as staring into space, feeling drowsy during the day, losing train of thought, getting lost in thoughts, tiring easily, forgetting what was going to say, feeling confused, spacing out, feeling mixed up, and daydreaming.
Adaptive Behavior skills	Skills needed to adapt to one's living environment.
Functional Behavior Assessment	Tool teachers use with students who have emotional or behavioral disorders.
Contingency-based self-management	people keep track of their own behavior and receive rewards and consequences based on their behavior.
CBM	Evaluation method designed to test performance in the curriculum to the students are exposed to.
Psychostimulants	stimulate or activate neurological functioning.
Strattera	Non-stimulant prescribed for ADHD
Ritalin	Most common stimulant prescribed for ADHD
Adderall	Sometimes prescribed for ADHD
Vyvanse	Sometimes prescribed for ADHD
Paradoxical effect of Ritalin	When Ritalin makes patients react in the opposite of what would be expected.
Mind-wandering	Difficulty in keeping train of thought because of thinking about something other than what they are doing.

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