Helpap, Julius Max Johannes (2022) Task Preparation and Effort Allocation in University Students with Varying Levels of ADHD Symptoms. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
This paper investigates the effect of gender and levels of ADHD symptomatology on reactive cognitive control in university students. Reactive cognitive control being engaged in response to a stimulus with no preparation prior to its occurrence. This process was measured in this study by use of a Stroop task with two conditions. A condition with a cue before the occurrence of the stimulus (alerting) and one without (no-cue). The no-cue condition measured reactive cognitive control, while the alerting condition functioned as a control condition. Forty-nine college students participated in the study as part of the SONA program of the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. The two main questions this paper is trying to answer are if there is an effect of varying degrees of ADHD symptomatology on a participant’s engagement of reactive cognitive control and if there is an effect of a participant’s gender on their engagement of reactive cognitive control. In the data analysis two repeated measures ANOVA with the between-subjects factors gender and self-reported level of ADHD symptomatology were performed. The data analysis found no significant effect for gender or level of ADHD symptomatology on the reaction times of the college students with ADHD during the Stroop task. It can be concluded that gender has no effect on reactive cognitive control. The findings on ADHD symptomatology should be disregarded due to the limitations of the sample, for example the small number of participants with high levels of ADHD symptoms and the varying environments in which the participants took part in the experiment. Keywords: ADHD, reactive cognitive control, gender differences
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Mohamed, S.M.H. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Clinical Psychology (CP) [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Mar 2022 13:38 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Mar 2022 13:38 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/293 |
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