Performance of disturbed hyperactive and nonhyperactive children on an objective measure of hyperactivity
- 1 December 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
- Vol. 12 (4) , 561-571
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00916850
Abstract
Twenty hyperactive emotionally disturbed children (6–11 years) and a matched sample of nonhyperactive emotionally disturbed children were selected from the population of a therapeutic day treatment facility on the basis of teacher ratings. They were administered the Matching Familiar Figures Test-20 and were rated on several scales of impulsivity and/or hyperactivity. Each subject was required to perform on the Delay Task of the Gordon Diagnostic System, which required them to inhibit behavioral responding on a temporally based schedule (DRL-6) in order to win points. Children classified as hyperactive, whether by one or more criteria, were relatively unable to refrain from emitting a high number of nonreinforced responses. Moreover, these performance differences persisted regardless of age or IQ and were stable over the 8 minutes required to complete the test.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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