Citation

Fiedler NL, Ullman DG. J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. 1983; 11(2): 193-206.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1983, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

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PMID

6619433

Abstract

The curiosity behaviors of 20 hyperactive boys, both on and off stimulant drugs, and in relation to 20 nonhyperactive boys, were assessed. Comparisons on object, manipulative, conceptual, perceptual, and reactive curiosity tasks indicated that stimulants reduced only the object curiosity task performance of hyperactive boys, although the level tended to remain above that of nonhyperactive boys. Also, hyperactive boys both on and off drugs tended to have lower conceptual curiosity scores than controls. Implications are discussed.

Language: en