What Did Klein and Colleagues (2012) Find in Their Longitudinal

question 28

Multiple Choice

What did Klein and colleagues (2012) find in their longitudinal study of boys diagnosed with ADHD and a comparison group without ADHD?

• A)They found that 74 percent of the ADHD group were employed, compared to 80 percent in the comparison group.
• B)Males in the ADHD group were employed at jobs with lower status than those in the comparison group.
• C)Most boys in the comparison group did not complete high school.
• D)There were no differences in employment level or employment status between the ADHD group and the comparison group.

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Definitions:

Basic Cognitive Processes

Processes such as perception, memory, language, problem-solving, and abstract thinking that underlie all human behaviors and learning.

Attention And Memory

The interplay between the focus of mental resources on specific information and the retention of that information over time.

Reversibility And Conservation

concepts in cognitive development theory by Piaget that describe children's understanding that objects can change form and return to their original form (reversibility) and recognizing that quantitative aspects of an object are conserved despite changes in shape or appearance (conservation).

Concrete Thinking And Logic

A stage of cognitive development where children think in literal terms, focusing on the concrete and present rather than abstract or hypothetical concepts.