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Chapter 7
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Conduct Disorder | A disorder charcaterized by overt, aggressive, disruptive behavior or covert antisocial acts such as stealing, lying, and fire setting; may include bother overt and covert acts |
| Strauss Syndrome | Behaviors of distractibility, forced responsiveness to stimuli, and hyperactivity; based on the work of Alfred Strauss and Heinz Werner with chidlren with intelllectual disabilities |
| Cerebral Palsy | A condition charcaertized by paralysis, weakness, lack of coordination, and/or other motor dysfunction; cuased by damage to the brain before it has matured |
| Minimal Brian Injury | A term used to desribe a child who shows behavorial but not neurlogoical signs of brian injury; the term is not as popular as it once was, primiarly because of its lack of dignostic utlilty |
| Hyperactive Child Syndrome | A term used to refer to children who exhabit inattention, impulsivity, and/or hyperactivity; popluar in the 1960s and 1970s |
| Neurotransmitters | Chemicals invloved in sending messages between neurnons in the brain |
| Dopamine | A neurotransmitter, the levels of which may be abnormal in people with ADHD |
| Norepinephrine | A neurotransmitter, the levels of which may be abnormal in people with ADHD |
| Molecular Genetics | Study of the structure and function of genes at the molecular level |
| Toxins | Poisions in the enviorment that can cause fetal malformation; can result in cogniive impairments |
| Executive Functioning (EF) | The ability to regulate one's behaviors through working memory, inner speech, control of emotions and arousal levels, and analysis of problems and communicatoions of problem solutions to others; delayed or imparied in people with ADHA |
| Behavioral Inhibition | The ability to stop an intended response, to stop an ongoing resposen, to guard an ongoing response from interruption, and to refain from responding immediately; allows executive functions to occur; delay or impaired in those with ADHD |
| Hyperactivity | a persistent pattern of excessive, often uncontrollable, motor activity and restlessness that is inappropriate for a student's age |
| Impulsivity | a lack of self-regulation where students may struggle to control their reactions, often resulting in behaviors like calling out, interrupting, or acting before hearing instructions. |
| Sluggish Cognitive Tempo (SCT) | A set of behaviors charcaterized by daydreaming, feeling confused, tiring easily; oftern displayed by persons with ADHD |
| Adaptive Behavior Skills | Skills needed to adapt to one's living enviroment; usually estimated by an adaptive behavior survey; one of two major components of the AAMR definations |
| Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA) | Evalustion that consists of finding out the consequences, antecedents, and setting events, that maintian inappropriate behaviors |
| Contingency-based Self-management | Rewards based on used of self-managemnet techinques |
| Curriculum-based Measurements (CBM) | A formative evalution method designed to evaluate performance in the curriculum to which students are exposed; usually invloves giving students a small smaple of items from the curriculum in use in their schools |
| Momentary Time Sampling | An interval recording procedure used to capture a representative sample of a target behavior over a specified period of time |
| Strattera | A nonstimulant medication for ADHD; affects the neurotansmitters norepinephrine |
| Ritalin | The most commonly presrcibed psychostimulant for ADHD; its genric name is methylphenidate |
| Adderall | A psychostimulant for ADHD; its effcts are longer acting than those of Ritalin |
| Vyvanse | A stimlant that is sometimes prescribed to treat symptoms of attention defict hyperactivity disorder in children |
| Paradoxical Effect of Ritalin | The now discredited belief that Ritalin, even though a stimulant, acts to subdue a person's behavior and that this effect of Ritalin is evident in people with ADHD but not in those without ADHD |
| Mind-wandering | Diffculty in keeping a train of thought because of thinking about something other than what one is doing; sometimes accompanied by one's inability to recall what topic(s) he or she was thinking about |
| Coaching | A technique whereby a friend or therapist offers encouragemnet and support for a person with ADHD |
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