Practical - Neurodevelopment and Parenting

Question 1

How does the teenage brain differ to the adult brain?

Answer 1

The teenage brain has an adult-like ability to reason BUT has a…
- heightened need for basic reward
- lower capacity to buffer immediate influences

Question 2

Why is emotion recognition important?

Answer 2

Survival: detecting threats

Social: understanding others to form social bonds

Question 3

Outline some of our emotion systems in the brain - and the consequences of it ‘going wrong’

Answer 3

Fear: Amygdala - anxiety disorders, PTSD, phobias

Caring: Limbic System - ToM issues, empathy problems

Seeking: Dopaminergic Synapses - substance misuse

Question 4

What is needed for brain development

Answer 4

Sensory and motor experience
Hormones
Parent-child relationships: maternal attachment and contact
Peer relationships
Good diet

Question 5

What is not good for development (parenting styles)

Answer 5

Permissive- low expectations, lienent
Uninvolved - neglectful, passive, absent
Authoritarian - punishment, rules, autocratic