COGNITIVE STYLES IN ADOLESCENTS PREVIOUSLY DIAGNOSED AS HYPERACTIVE*
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- 1 July 1972
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
- Vol. 13 (3) , 203-209
Abstract
SUMMARY: Four cognitive styles were studied in 20 adolescent boys previously diagnosed as hyperactive and 20 normal controls. The results indicated that the hyperactives were not impaired in their ability to perform on tasks involving highly overlearned abilities, i.e., color naming and reading color words, even under distracting conditions. They were deficient, however, in their approach to tasks in which there was a greater degree of response uncertainty. Hyperactives took less lime to reflect over a problem solution when a number of alternative solutions were available and had greater difficulty isolating a simple figure hidden in a complex background.Keywords
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