Zandbergen, Jennifer (2022) The Role of Effort Allocation in Error Monitoring Abilities in People with Varying Levels of ADHD. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder is a disorder characterized by attention deficits and/or impulsivity and hyperactivity. It also seems to be associated with several cognitive impairments, including poor error monitoring. While healthy adults slow down their responses after an error to increase the chance of getting a correct response, ADHD patients don’t seem to do this. A model called the state regulation model tries to explain such cognitive deficits by stating that people with ADHD do not allocate enough effort to compensate for under- and overactivation during tasks. The aim of the present study was to investigate error monitoring in people with varying levels of ADHD symptoms and to see if poor effort allocation could explain a possible deficit in this skill. To examine this, 46 participants performed a task-switching paradigm with a fast, medium and slow presentation rate of stimuli. The performance of all participants on post-error slowing and post-error accuracy were compared across the three event rates. The results showed no significant differences between participants on post-error slowing and post-error accuracy in general and across the event rates. In this study, no evidence was found of error monitoring difficulties or poor effort allocation in patients with ADHD.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Mohamed, S.M.H. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Clinical Neuropsychology (CN) [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Mar 2022 13:40 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Mar 2022 13:40 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/288 |
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