Psychology 2042A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Relationship Counseling, Illusory Correlation, Reinforcement

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2042A/B
• Professor: Jeff St. Pierre

Document Summary

In many cases, aggressive behaviours are an adaptation to home and neighbourhood violence and neglect: does not excuse behaviour, but provide important information to understand and prevent behaviours. Contexts, costs and perspectives: context, for most children, antisocial behaviours appear and then decline during the normal development, although children who are aggressive maintain their relative standing over time, antisocial behaviours appear and then decline during normal development. Dsm-5 contains the general category of disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct disorders. Moving out of the nest, personal responsibility, age, stop having the same hormonal changes as in adolescence, development of prefrontal cortex. It depends on societal norms and personal beliefs. Inhibition in laboratory tasks can be the same in teens and adults, except when you add social/emotional cues. Things that we are doing knowing about the development of the brain: age dependent laws, drinking, driving graduate licensing, smoking, voting, consenting to sex, buying a gun, school attendance you must go to school.