Is ADD/ADHD a Real Thing?

Read and take notes on BOTH of the following articles using a separate piece of paper.  Pay attention to research methods, findings and sources.  Then answer the questions that follow on that separate piece of paper.

You Don't Think ADHD Is Real?

ADD/ADHD is FICTION - NOT A REAL DISEASE!

1. What are the specific symptoms in each of the articles?
2. What does each article say about the causes of ADHD?
3. What would lead you to question each of the articles?
4. Are there outside factors that may influence the diagnosis of ADHD?  What are they?
5. Which article do you believe and why?

Who Are You?

Go to the following website and discover some things about yourself:

• Who Am I?

Erik Erikson and his Eight Stages

Erik Erikson was a researcher who devised a psychosocial theory about personality development being the result of several stages of conflict throughout life.

Even though the conflicts take place in the ego, the conflicts also take place within culture and society itself.

According to Erikson, the resolution of the conflicts at each stage of development help form the personality and how the individual is socialized.

Fill out the chart according to the various stages.  You may want to view the eight conflicts here.  Or here:  Erik Erikson and his psychosocial stages

As you go through each of the stages 1-6 (you haven't gotten to 7 & 8 yet) describe a few things about how you resolved the conflict or how others around you acted to help you resolve the conflict.

Erik Erikson

If you choose, you may decide to watch the following video to help you understand and remember the eight stages of Erikson:

Erikson's Eight Stages: How to Quickly Memorize Them

or this one:

Memorize Erikson's 8 Theories of development fast 

Cognitive Development

Go to the following website and fill out the worksheet.

• Cognitive Development