Sentence examples for behavioural measures of impulsivity from inspiring English sources

Extensive research has shown these negative outcomes are associated with both self-report and behavioural measures of impulsivity but these two measurement domains are not themselves associated.

Behavioural measures of impulsivity showed fewer associations with problematic behaviours; they were also not independent predictors of impulsive behaviour in multivariate analyses.

Tables 4 and 5 and Fig. 2 present the correlations between measures of EF and self-reported or behavioural measures of impulsivity for the two clinical groups.

Another consideration is that self-report and behavioural measures of impulsivity may be measuring different constructs, which are often not correlated with each other (e.g. Reynolds et al. 2006; Stanford et al. 2009).

Yet, the high levels of self-reported impulsivity were only weakly related to the behavioural measures of impulsivity in the present study and also in previous studies (Reynolds et al., 2006; Meda et al., 2009).

Impulsivity can also be assessed by behavioural tasks; but, in healthy individuals, self-report and behavioural measures of impulsivity are only weakly correlated (Reynolds et al., 2006; Meda et al., 2009).

Here, we review the evidence for sex differences in behavioral measures of impulsivity for both humans and laboratory animals.

Table 1 provides further detail on these behavioral measures of impulsivity.

Previous findings revealed patients to show worse performance on at least one behavioral measure of impulsivity.

To assess inhibition control as a behavioral measure of impulsivity, the Stroop Color and Word Test (Stroop) was used.

To generate behavioural measures of real-life impulsivity and risk-taking that could be used in further validating the association of dorsolateral PFC and ventral striatum activity with impulsivity and risk-taking, participants completed the 11-item version of the Barratt Impulsivity Scale (Patton et al., 1995) and the Domain-Specific Risk-Tandng Scale (Blais and Weber, 2006).