Task 3Article ipact of socio emotional context

Question 1

The importznce of affective and contextual factors in adolescent risk taking explain situationn

Answer 1

Adolescents make very different risk decisions than adults ven though they have the same basic reasonin g and infromation processing skills.

Question 2

What are othe rimportant factors in decision making?

Answer 2

Prior experience, social-emotional influences and social context.

Question 3

Sensation seeking?

Answer 3

Inclination to seek varied, novel, complex and intense sensations and experiences and the willingness to take physical, social, legal and financial risks for the sake of such experiences.

Question 4

Self regulation

Examples of these constructs?

Answer 4

Constructs that refer to the capacity to deliberately modukate ones thoughts, feelings or actions in the pursuit of planned goals. Among these constructs are impulse control, response inhibiton, emotion regulaton and attentional control

Question 5

Dual system account?

Waht does it give accou t for?

Answer 5

System that characterizes decision making as the byproduct of interaction between processes that support controlled, reasoned and deliberative behavior and those that drive reactive, emotional and reward-sensitive responding.

Gives account fir why adolescents decision-making about risks seems to parallel that of adults

Question 6

Limbic system and prefrontal corticl funnctions

Answer 6

Reactive hot pathway

Cold pathway

Question 7

Reactive hot pathway

Role of socioemotinal contxtial factors?

Answer 7

Limbic system

decision making in high emotional conditions - irrational
This pathway is in a state of hypersnsitivity during adolescence
Socioemotional contextual factors provide a dirve to activation of this hypersensitive sytem.

Question 8

Cold pathway

Answer 8

Prefrontal cortex

Decision making in low emotional conditions- rational

Question 9

Why is there an increased risk taking in adolescence? cold and hot

Why not so much in adults?

Answer 9

Increased risk taking ina dolescence can be explained by an increased tendency for adolescents to use hot rather than cold pathway when there are effective contextual influences

Adults are less sesitive to affective inputs because responsiveness of affective pathway may be attenuated in adulthood and because adults possess fully matured capaxcity for cognitive control that allows impulsive reactive rsponses to be held in check .

Question 10

Cognitive ontrol pathway

Affective pathway

Answer 10

Network of brain regions involved in self regulation (low control)

Affective pathway- Network of brai regions involved in emotions