Impulsivity and inhibitory control
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Impulsive behavior is caused by an inability to inhibit prepotent responses. Difficulty in controlling impulses results from problems in inhibitory processing rather than from having superior ability in performing prepotent responses. This implies that impulsive people seem to have difficulty inhibiting preponent responses not because their prepotent responses are extremely swift but because their inhibitory responses are extremely slow.
Publication Name: Psychological Science
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0956-7976
Year: 1997
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Continuous Performance Tests: a comparison of modalities
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A study of Continuous Performance Tests (CPT) for studying sustained attention and impulsivity in subjects thought to suffer from attentional deficits reveals that auditory enhanced the difficulty of tasks. Vigilance tasks were found easier than the distractibility tasks. This use of CPT tests was different from the norm in that auditory stimuli were used.
Publication Name: Journal of Clinical Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0021-9762
Year: 1995
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Effects of reward and response costs on inhibition in ADHD children
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Reward and response costs influence the response of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and control children. ADHD children exhibit more generalized impaired inhibition and made more commission errors than others across the four reinforcement conditions of analysis.
Publication Name: Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0021-843X
Year: 1995
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