PSY 453 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Prefrontal Cortex, Orbitofrontal Cortex, Psy
30 Jul 2020
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Impulsiveness in children and adolescents has been consistently associated with a series of social factors, especially related to the environment where they spend the most time in their lives: the family. And there is evidence that certain patterns of upbringing, or even particular episodes of relational violence, can persistently shape the way in which the person learns to regulate what. Situations of physical, psychological and sexual abuse increase the risk that children and adolescents develop, over the years, disruptive or antisocial behaviors, in which impulsivity rises as a cardinal trait. Along the same lines, it is possible that these families do not notice the importance of prosocial behaviors, avoiding their pertinent reinforcement and preventing their consolidation in the child"s heritage (basic behavioral repertoire). All of this is particularly important insofar as impulsiveness can have profoundly negative consequences for the person"s life, both in the short and long term .
