Volume 29, Issue 2
DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2020.266
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS FOR TEENAGE ADVENTURES: AN ANALYSIS BASED ON NEUROFEEDBACK MECHANISM
Abstract
Dangerous behaviors, a.k.a. adventures, are increasingly common among teenagers, facing the fierce competition for higher education and employment. To identify the social psychological factors of teenage adventures, this paper explores the neurofeedback mechanism of teenagers for impulse behavior and response inhibition, using the paradigm NoGo / Go. In the test of the NoGo / Go task, the subjects were classified into high and low impulse groups by scale scores, and the 26 English letters were used as stimuli. The latency, wave amplitude and brain electrical activity mapping (BEAM) of P3 components evoked by the task were recorded at the completion of the task. The results show that the wave amplitudes of the P3 components evoked in the high impulse group at FZ, F3, F4, FC3 and FC4 were lower than those in the low impulse group; the two groups had similar distributions of electroencephalogram (EEG) signals, but the EEG distribution of the high impulse group tended to expand outward, especially in the frontal area; thus, the brain neurons in the frontal area are relatively active, and the teenage adventures may be associated with dysfunction of the frontal lobe. The research results help to reduce the tendency of teenagers of committing adventures.
Keywords
Teenage, Adventure, Event Related Potential (ERP), Electroencephalogram (EEG)