PSY 338 Lecture 2: PSY338 Chapter 2
22 Mar 2017
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Language, toileting, self- care skills, self-control, peer relationships. Academic skills and rules, rule-governed games, simple responsibilities. Relations with opposite sex, personal identity, separation from family, increased responsibilities. Arguing, demanding attention, disobedience, fears, over activity, resisting bedtime. Arguing, inability to concentrate, self- consciousness, showing off. Speech and language disorders, problems screening from child abuse and neglect, some anxiety disorders such as phobias. Adhd, learning disorders, school refusal behavior, conduct problems. Anorexia, bulimia, delinquency, suicide attempts, drug and alcohol abuse, schizophrenia, depression. Low brain activity in insula area better response to cognitive behavior therapy. Reduces arousal and moderates emotional responses such as anger, hostility, and aggression. May act as a switch that turns on various brain circuits, allowing other nts to inhibit or facilitate emotions or behavior. Involved in exploratory, extroverted, and pleasure- seeking activity. Facilitates or controls emergency reactions and alarm responses. Plays a role in emotional and behavioral regulation. Plays a role in information and motor coordination.
