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Impulsivity and inhibitory control in normal development and childhood psychopathology (1990)
| Venue: | Developmental Psychology |
| Citations: | 75 - 11 self |
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@ARTICLE{Schachar90impulsivityand,
author = {Russell Schachar and Gordon D. Logan},
title = {Impulsivity and inhibitory control in normal development and childhood psychopathology},
journal = {Developmental Psychology},
year = {1990},
pages = {710--720}
}
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Abstract
Two experiments investigated the development and pathology of inhibitory control in children. Inhibitory control was investigated with the stop-signal paradigm, which is based on a formal theory of inhibition and directly measures the mechanism of inhibition. The ability to inhibit developed little after Grade 2, but subjects with attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity (ADDH) showed deficient inhibitory control. Their deficient inhibitory control was attributable to the subgroup of ADDH subjects with pervasive hyperactivity who had a more severe inhibitory deficit than did the situational hyperactive subgroup, the normal group, and the pathological controls. These studies reflect the utility of the stop-signal paradigm as a measure of inhibitory control. The concept of inhibitory control is central in theories of child development and in the definition and explanation of psychopathological disorders of childhood—in particular, of attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity (ADDH; Douglas, 1983; Kogan, 1983; Milich & Kramer, 1984). Inhibitory control is one of several processes that perform the executive functions
Keyphrases
inhibitory control normal development childhood psychopathology stop-signal paradigm deficient inhibitory control attention deficit disorder executive function several process addh subject formal theory milich kramer child development psychopathological disorder pathological control pervasive hyperactivity situational hyperactive subgroup severe inhibitory deficit normal group
