te shows a slower response in these individuals. Traits that characterize individuals with suboptimal response include sensation seeking, boredom, impulsivity, extroversion, drug use/abuse, sexual promiscuity, pain tolerance, child abuse, poor school performance, religious indifference, mental/behavioral disorders, slow brain waves, and more often male than female. The correlation between ADHD and criminal/antisocial behavior suggests that stimulants like Ritalin may alleviate behavioral symptoms.
Reward dominance theory, or the Quay-Gray theory, is predicated on the hypothesis that most voluntary behavior is controlled by the relative strength of two opposing behavior control centers in the brainùthe behavioral activation system (BAS), which seems to motivate responses to possible rewards, and the behavioral inhibition system (BIS), which is said to inhibit responses to potential punishment. While normal individuals are equally responsive to reward and punishment, criminal/antisocial individuals are reward dominantùmore responsive to reward than average, and less responsive to punishment. The reward dominant person is more likely to be addicted to gambling, because he is more motivated by the possibility of winning, while not intimidated by the idea of losing. Even if he sees he is in a losing streak, he tends to keep playing, a response known as response preservation. In the same manner, reward dominant individuals gravitate toward other reward dominant activities, such as drug use and impulsivity. Their heart rate and galvanic skin response show a higher response to the prospects of reward and a lower response to the prospects of punishment than average. They also tend to be prone to accidental injuries, conduct disorders, and depression.
Seizuring theory proposes that subconvulsive limbic
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