Name Three Characteristics of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

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Essay

Name three characteristics of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Must individuals display all three to have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder?

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Definitions:

Oedipus Complex

Oedipus Complex is a Freudian theory proposing a child's unconscious sexual desire for the opposite-sex parent and jealousy toward the same-sex parent.

Phallic Stage

The attachment of libido to the genitals.

Castration Anxiety

In psychoanalytic theory, a child's fear of losing their genitalia as a punishment for sexual desires or as a result of sexual competition, especially in the phallic stage.

Penis Envy

A concept in Freudian psychoanalysis describing a supposed emotion in which females envy males for having a penis, symbolically representing power or privilege.