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  title info:
    title: Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
    sub title: search for an objective diagnostic measure
  name:
    name part: Thompson, Terri Louise.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Reynolds, Cecil R.
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Ash, Michael J.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Barker, Donald G.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Lutes, Candida J.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1988
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 134 leaves ; 29 cm
  abstract: Five computerized tasks were developed and administered to thirty children with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and thirty normal children ages 5 through 12 to determine the ability of each experimental task in discriminating between ADHD and normal children. The five tasks (i.e., stimulus familiarization, sat shifting, visual continuous performance, auditory continuous performance, and simple reaction time) measured, to varying degrees, the facilitory and inhibitory components of attention, components that are believed to be primary features of ADHD. In an attempt to avoid the restriction of range in scores often found for normal subjects taking continuous performance tests, an adaptive-rate method, adjusting the rate of stimulus presentation according to the individual's performance, was also implemented. Data, evaluated through ANOVA, MANOVA, and multiple regression analysis, indicated that visual continuous performance, auditory continuous performance, set shifting, and simple reaction time tasks are valuable in distinguishing between children who have ADHD and those who do not. Children with ADHD demonstrated significantly more omissions, commissions, and false alarms as well as longer reaction times and less correct responses than the control group. An analysis of the signal-detection components of the visual and auditory continuous performance tasks using an adaptive-rate method of stimulus presentation revealed that discriminability indexes and response bias measures do indeed differentiate ADHD from normal groups of children. The future use of an adaptive-rate method similar to the one used in the present study was encouraged over the traditional version of the continuous performance task. The data also brought about insight into the neurobiology of attention suggesting that both facilitory and inhibitory processes contribute greatly to the behavioral manifestation of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. The findings gave support to the…
  note: Typescript (photocopy).
  note: Vita.
  note: "Major subject: School Psychology."
  note: Ph. D. Texas A & M University 1988
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
    topic: Diagnosis
  subject:
    topic: School psychology
  subject:
    topic: Major school psychology
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  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 900612
    record change date: 20200904152432.0
    record identifier: in00000906806
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng