Compare and contrast risk-taking and impulsive behaviors. Give examples of each
What will be an ideal response?
• Risk-taking behaviors are created by competing brain developments: socioemotional (desire to be with peers, inherent risk associated with social relationships) and cognitive control networks (frontal lobe that controls executive functioning); cognitive control networks tend to lag behind socioemotional parts of the brain
- Examples – parachuting, rock climbing, skiing
• Impulsive behaviors are based on reward hypersensitivity, punishment, hyposensitivity, and inadequate effortful control; sensation-seeking behaviors that are not well planned or executed; spur of the moment
- Examples – driving fast, unprotected sex
• Risk-taking behaviors may not always be impulsive
- Example – an individual may enjoy a sport that is risky but trains well for the sport and takes protective measures
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