Reference no: EM132614468
Attention deficit disorder (ADD) is a syndrome in which a person has difficulty focusing sustained attention on a task for a significant amount of time. In some cases, this is accompanied by hyperactivity as well. It is currently being diagnosed at an all-time high. Between 1989 and 1996, youth visits to ADD increased 90%, from 1.9% of total physician visits to 3.6%.
Now, a psychiatrist named Dr. Edward Hallowell is making a new distinction. He has described a similar set of characteristics in a large number of patients that he terms Attention Deficit Trait (ADT). It looks a lot like ADD in its day-to-day manifestation, but unlike ADD, ADT symptoms lessen when the sufferer goes on vacation or into a decreased sensory input setting for an extended time period (on the order of days or weeks). In such a long-term placid situation, the ADD sufferer's problems continue unabated.
Imagine that you have the general set of symptoms described above. But which of the two syndromes are causing your symptoms: the disorder (ADD) or the trait (ADT)? Approach your problem using scientific methodology-developing a question, a hypothesis, an experiment, and a control for the experiment.
Suggested method:
Question: What's my problem? Is it ADD or ADT?
Hypothesis: State hypothesis based directly on the above question.
Experiment: Keeping the same diet, sleep habits, and basic activity level, you will be sent on a two-week vacation to the Bahama Islands. You will be given only a beach to walk on and your favorite friend to talk to, following which you will be asked to read and memorize 10 sequential definitions from a standard dictionary in 30 minutes.
Control for this Experiment: You get a numerical result for the number of definitions you memorized. What does that number mean? Nothing-unless you have a control for your experiment. What is the most obvious control for this experiment?
-Write out a testable hypothesis in a brief sentence. Derive it from the question asked above. (Be certain that the experiment addresses it!)
-In a second sentence, describe a basic, critical control situation (additional experiment?) that will give validity to the experiment described above.Number the sentences with "1" and "2".
NOTE: do not use paragraph form.
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