{"id":8193,"date":"2019-05-22T16:05:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/impulsivity\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:05:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:05:02","slug":"impulsivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/impulsivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Impulsivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pathological decrease of impulse control, often encountered in ADHD and Tourette&#8217;s syndromes, that is.deletrious to self or others, and which may or may not be accompanied by feelings of guilt. &nbsp;There is evidence that poor impulse control turns out to be a better predictor of delinquency than IQ.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See Attention deficit hyperactivity syndrome (ADHD), <a href=\"continuous_performance_task\">Continuous performance task<\/a>, <a href=\"delayed_gratification\">Delayed gratification<\/a>, <a href=\"guilt\">Guilt<\/a>, <a href=\"inhibitory_control\">Inhibitory control<\/a>, <a href=\"intelligence\">Intelligence<\/a>, <a href=\"prefrontal-frontal-striatal_loops\">Prefrontal-frontal-striatal loops<\/a>, <a href=\"temperament\">Temperament<\/a>, <a href=\"tourette-s_syndrome\">Tourette&#8217;s syndrome<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pathological decrease of impulse control, often encountered in ADHD and Tourette&#8217;s syndromes, that is.deletrious to self or others, and which may or may not be accompanied by feelings of guilt. &nbsp;There is evidence that poor impulse control turns out to be a better predictor of delinquency than IQ.&nbsp; See Attention deficit hyperactivity syndrome (ADHD), Continuous &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/impulsivity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Impulsivity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}