PSYC 228 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Iowa Gambling Task, Executive Functions, Sensation Seeking
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Incentive processing system and cognitive control system both developing over this period of time at different speed. Ips loves reward, making us do things we wouldn"t otherwise do. Ips also develops very rapidly, opposed to ccs slower and steady. Risk preference: risk benefits > cost. Reward sensitivity: tests that measure reward sensitivity: iowa gambling task, delay discounting task. Maturation of cognitive control system isn"t complete until late adolescents or early adulthood. The accelerator is activated before a good breaking system is in place . Reward seeking and self-regulation develop at different times, which makes middle adolescents an especially vulnerable period for risky behaviour. Peers add an extra activation to the activation. Think about social rewards/incentives as well as physical. People"s preference for risk spike during their adolescent years. Adolescents are much more sensitive to reward than they are to punishment. Would you rather now or in the future .