little more about myself. I took the Anger Test‚ Arguing Style‚ Attention Span Test‚ and the Happiness Quiz. My score for the Anger Test was a 36. They said it was low which means I can cope well with angering situations but I could also be denying my true feelings. My Arguing Style quiz score was an 84. The description says that I argue in ways to end fights fast and to where the person and I are both satisfied. The third quiz‚ Attention Span Test‚ I scored a 63 and their description of my outcome
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Individual - Attention Spans Attention spans vary among both children and adults. Some people simply prefer to be on the go and have difficulty completing a lesson or task for any length of time. Since the most popular method of teaching requires students to listen and read‚ often while sitting still‚ students who have a short attention span might have difficulty learning. Enviromental - Distractions Distraction is the divided attention of an individual or group from the chosen object of attention onto
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Abstract This paper explores four published sources that report on the ways in which society has resorted to misdiagnosing today’s male youth with Attention-deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) as a way to stop undesirable childhood behavior that is otherwise normal. The article takes into consideration possible factors that may contribute to the increasing amount of misdiagnoses among children today. With studies conducted in the articles by Ilina Singh (2005) and Lydia Furman (2005)‚ the authors
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Attention deficit hyper disorder also known as ADHD‚(Shea 5) is a very common disorder. ADHD is a neurobehavioral disorder‚(Shea 7) about nine percent of all American children ages three to seventeen have been diagnosed‚ and four percent of adults.(Shea 8) Some symptoms of ADHD include impulsiveness‚ inattentiveness‚ and hyperactivity. (Shea 6) Though ADHD is very common‚ it is hard to diagnose. There is no medical test which can diagnose ADHD. It takes the help of parents‚ teachers‚ and doctors
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Cherry’s notion of selective attention explains how people follow what they want to hear in spite of several distractions. He refers to this phenomenon as the cocktail party effect. He studied this in a laboratory controlled experiment using the shadowing technique. An auditory message was presented to one ear of the participants over headphones whilst a simultaneous distractor message was presented to the other ear. The participants had to ’shadow’‚ i.e‚ ignore the distractor message while repeating
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Ken Wilson’s Case Adapted from Case Studies in Abnormal Psychology 9th ed.‚ by Oltmanns‚ Martin‚ Neale & Davidson‚ 2012. Case History: Ken Wilson is a 7-year-old‚ first-grader who has been referred by his mother to a child psychology clinic. She explained that Ken was having trouble at school‚ both academically and socially. Ken’s parents had been married for 12 years. His father was a business manager‚ and his mother‚ a homemaker. Ken was the middle of three children; his older sister
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The effect of television on a childs attention span Samantha Martin COM/156 May 6‚ 2012 Jodi Galvan Axia College of the University of Phoenix The effect of television on a childs attention span In watching my 13-year-old daughter‚ and constantly trying to get her to complete the simplest of tasks such as loading the dishwasher. I have often wondered if watching too much television has anything to do with her inability to complete the smallest of tasks. Some people think that
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Amy Jones CHD 254 April 26‚ 2011 Excessive Attention Seeking Children who portray this behavior tend to do this because they feel inferior and left out. They also could feel as if they are unable to control their behavior and emotion. So they feel out of control. They act out because they are trying to control things or the people in their lives. Children will try a number of ways to accomplish this and most often they are not good behaviors‚ because let’s face it parents or teachers give
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of selective attention is introduced (Wikipedia‚ 2006). A normal attention span seems to develop in three stages in children. First‚ the child’s attention is said to be overly exclusive. This is a term used by psychologists to describe attention that is focused on a single object for long periods while tuning out all other stimuli (Child Development Institute‚ 2006). Second‚ a child’s attention develops to where it is overly inclusive. This refers to a “wide span of attention that is constantly
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to explore aspects of attention‚ memory and “automaticity” for the last 20 years. Because the effect only shows up in fluent readers‚ a picture version is being used to diagnose children with learning disabilities. In clinical psychology it is being used to identify phobias: If Joe is afraid of spiders‚ it takes him longer to identify the color that associated words such as “web” or “crawly” are printed. It is also used to diagnose individuals with schizophrenia and attention deficit disorder. In
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