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Aboulomania is characterised by great indecision and an inability to, or difficulty in, making any kind of choice in a person's daily life. [11] This significantly affects functioning, specifically the ability to function socially, making it difficult to maintain family and personal relationships.
The tendency for people of one race to have difficulty identifying members of a race other than their own. Egocentric bias: Recalling the past in a self-serving manner, e.g., remembering one's exam grades as being better than they were, or remembering a caught fish as bigger than it really was. Euphoric recall
Similar, but distinct, is color agnosia, which involves having difficulty recognizing colors, while still being able to perceive them as measured by a color matching or categorizing task. [12] Cortical deafness: Refers to people who do not perceive any auditory information but whose hearing is intact. Environmental agnosia
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However, working memory problems are confounded with domain-general learning difficulties, thus these deficits may not be specific to dyscalculia but rather may reflect a greater learning deficit. Dysfunction in prefrontal regions may also lead to deficits in working memory and other executive function, accounting for comorbidity with ADHD.
A less common finding suggests that there may be a higher prevalence of alexithymia amongst males than females, which may be accounted for by difficulties some males have with "describing feelings", but not by difficulties in "identifying feelings", in which males and females show similar abilities. [41]
Individuals with autism tend to be dependent on the routines that they have already mastered, and have difficulty with initiating new non-routine tasks. Although an estimated 25–40% of people with autism also have a learning disability, many will demonstrate an impressive rote memory and memory for factual knowledge. [ 61 ]
When she first moved to London, Lyons “had to adjust to little things like measurements and temperature when cooking, as well as big things like navigating the Tube, a new health care system ...