Question

1. What role do cognitive deficits and/or distortions play in conduct problems?

2. Distinguish between life-course-persistent and adolescent-limited pathways to antisocial behavior.

Answer 1

Answer 1. Children with conduct disorders never think if the consequences of their unaccaptable behaviours and actions . They won’t think before acting or displaying negative behaviour. They are keast bothered about its impact on others . They fail to inhibit their impulsive behaviour and keep social values and rules in mind before conducting that behaviour. They are similar to children with ADHD .

Answer 2.)

there are two fundamental kinds of antisocial offenders in the public eye: The adolescence-limited offenders, who show antisocial conduct just amid adolescence and the life-course-persistent offenders, who start to carry on antisocially ahead of schedule in childhood and proceed with this conduct into adulthood.

Reason for life course persistent offenders might be - Genetic ,Brain Injury,Brain Activity, socioeconomic Status and

Minor Physical Anomalies (MPAs)   .

Reason for adolscent limited offenders:-

As per Terrie Moffitt, there are 3 etiological theories for immature limited offenders:

1. Adolescence-limited antisocial conduct is motivated by the hole between organic development and social development

2. It is found out from antisocial models who are effortlessly impersonated

3. It is managed by the reinforcement standards of learning hypothesis