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Sluggish cognitive tempo: the ADHD-like disorder that explains daydreaming?
Sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT), as the condition has been called, was the big story in the January issue of the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology.
"Hypersexual disorder", also known as Clinton syndrome, which appeared in an early draft of the manual has been dropped, as have "relational disorder" and "sluggish cognitive tempo".
The DSM, now approaching its fifth great edition, runs to hundreds of pages and includes such nebulous-sounding illnesses as intermittent explosive disorder (temper tantrums), relational disorder (pissed off with a relative) and sluggish cognitive tempo disorder (you may lack motivation).
OBJECTIVE:Sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT) symptoms uniquely contribute to psychiatric and functional outcomes in child samples; however, the psychometric properties of SCT measures among adult outpatients are unknown.
'Sluggish Cognitive Tempo' is a remarkably silly name for an even sillier proposal.
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Develop realistic cyber war gaming scenarios that systematically vary stress (e.g., as produced by varying cognitive workload through tempo of operations and density of attacks).
Training recommendations Develop realistic cyber war gaming scenarios that systematically vary stress (e.g., as produced by varying cognitive workload through tempo of operations and density of attacks) Incorporate stress management techniques Address challenges in preparing cyber warriors to overcome cognitive biases Conduct experiments to assess effectiveness of different training approaches.
"If you're talking to a puppy, increase the pitch of your voice and slow the tempo," says Mario Gallego-Abenza, a cognitive biologist and an author of a recent study analyzing canine response to human speech.
The time to access knowledge is the last category of tempo, clearly different from previous tempos because it relates to biases in cognitive access to memory.
Many school tasks necessitate quick decisions, and children with a slow cognitive processing speed may be disadvantaged if they have to solve tasks at the same tempo as their peers.
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