Authoritarian Parenting Beliefs and Values: Patriarchal, Victorian, behaviorist, insensitivity and intolerance, hierarchy, authority, submissiveness, harshness, predictability, conservatism, no parent child discussions, black and white world view, rigidity, aggressiveness,
inhibiting psychological control, suppression of emotions, threats.
That, in turn, reduces our cognitive capacity («the
psychological mechanisms that underlie our ability to solve problems, retain information, engage in logical reasoning, and so on») and our executive
control («our ability to manage our cognitive activities, including planning, attention, initiating, and
inhibiting actions, and
controlling impulses».