The Relationship between Adolescent Performance in a Cognitive Impulsiveness Task andTheir Deviate Behaviors
Date Issued
2007
Date
2007
Author(s)
Chiang, Po-Chun
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
This study intended to understand the relationship between adolescent cognitive impulsiveness and their deviate behavior using a cognitive performance task and physiological measures. Groups were defined by the age and degree of deviate behaviors as senior teenagers: normal, behavior problem, and criminal groups, and junior teenagers: normal and behavior problem groups. We also compared the performance of male and female subjects in the same group. According Gray’s neuropsychological model of approach-avoidance learning in 1987, Newman and Wallace (1993) supposed that the behavioral activating system (BAS) was stronger than behavioral inhibiting system (BIS) in impulsive individuals. So, impulsive individuals made more false alarm errors (but not omission errors) in the task included reward, but not in the task included only punishment. Results showed that the female criminal group performed significantly poor among the senior teenagers in the detection task. And, the female criminal showed the significantly higher skin conductance level that reflected BIS activity among the senior teenagers, with fewer false alarm errors in the condition that only include negative feedback than include positive feedback as expect. But, the senior teenagers who made more false alarm errors, also had a trend of higher skin conductance level. As hypothesis, behavior problem group of junior teenagers showed significantly more false alarm among the junior teenagers in the condition that only include positive feedback, but no significant omission difference in any condition. But, there is not any significant difference between the junior teenagers who made more or less false alarm errors.
Subjects
認知衝動性
偏差行為
「探索 / 逃避學習模式」
行為促發系統
行為抑制系統
心跳頻率
皮膚電傳導水準
cognitive impulsiveness
deviate behavior
neuropsychological model of approach-avoidance learning
behavioral activating system(BAS)
behavioral inhibiting system(BIS)
heart rate
skin conductance level
SDGs
Type
other