Sentences with phrase «psychological control mechanisms»

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Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

«This work is exciting in that it highlights a brain - based mechanism that supports a human's use of reactive control — the rapid and flexible deployment of attention to reduce susceptibility to distraction,» said Julie Bugg, assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences at Washington University who was not an author on the study.

Soft Machines is a group exhibition of artists exploring the influence and effects of control mechanisms on one's psychological and physical disposition.

Dudek works with objects, installations, collage and performance, touching upon questions regarding control in society, the hierarchy of power, and mechanisms of violence and aggression as seen from sociological, historical, and psychological standpoints.

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».

Children raised in families that experience multiple transitions do not consistently have higher levels of behavioral problems or lower test scores than do children in family types with one or fewer transitions, even when only child characteristics are controlled... Finally, maternal psychological well - being is shown to be an important mechanism by which family structure affects behavioral outcomes, but not cognitive ones.»

Future research should more closely examine the precise mechanisms by which these psychological and social environmental risk and resistance variables affect metabolic control.