Coelho, Sofia (2022) Effort Allocation and Error Monitoring in Individuals with Varying Levels of ADHD. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Problems with effort allocation have been observed in individuals with ADHD in recent research and appear to influence their performance. Furthermore, impairments in error monitoring may be another contributing factor to the lower performance of this population. More specifically, people with ADHD seem to slow down less than typically developing people upon committing a mistake (PES). The present study investigated how cognitive performance was affected by both effort allocation and error monitoring in university students with differing levels of ADHD. To operationalize this, a task-switching paradigm based on Sidlauskaite et al.’s (2020) task was used. With 46 participants, this online study also included the CAARS self-report measure for ADHD symptoms in order to quantify symptom severity. The results found no evidence to connect ADHD levels to differences in error monitoring and effort allocation when it comes to performance. However, they did identify a relation between error monitoring and effort allocation. Further research on this topic with more representative samples is recommended. Keywords: Effort allocation, attention deficit and hyperactivity/impulsivity disorder (ADHD), state regulation model, error monitoring, post-error slowing
| 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: | 17 Jan 2022 15:25 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Jan 2022 15:25 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/54 |
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