Describe three ways in which ADHD may impact an elementary school-aged child's ability to resolve the developmental challenges experienced by all children
What will be an ideal response?
• Developmental tasks
o self-regulation (physiological, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral)
o effortful control (increases in effortful control result in declines in impulsivity and distractibility)
o executive functioning – goal-directed behavior that involves the following
? inhibition of behavior
? working memory (remembering information over a brief period of time)
? shifting (ability to attend and consciously change mental sets, rule sets or tasks)
• ADHD impacts all of these in how a child interacts with others and learns
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A) self-esteem. B) shyness. C) aggressive behaviour. D) academic achievement. E) generosity.
In the context of a child's acquisition of particular meanings for words, which of the following exemplifies the principle of contrast?
a. A child says "white" when a parent says "black." b. A child gets confused when his mother calls his teddy bear "Theodore" instead of "Teddy." c. When a child says that he "runned home," a parent says "you ran home." d. One child has no difficulty learning word meanings, while a child just one year younger struggles.