Speaker:　Prof. Kirby Deater-Deckard
  　 　　　 Professor of Psychology, Director of Graduate Programs, Virginia Tech
  　 　　　 Professor of Psychiatry, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
  　 　　　 Director,Virginia Tech Community Partners

Time:　　 9:30am - 11:30am
Date:　　 Jun 5th(wed), 2013
Venue:　　D201
Abstract: 
In this presentation, I will discuss the development and inter-generational transmission of individual differences in cognitive self-regulation skills (executive attention and working memory) over childhood. These individual differences have implications for healthy and maladaptive development in many domains. They arise from complex transactions between biological (genetic and physiological) and environmental factors. In adulthood, deficits in these self-regulation skills are implicated in harsh reactive parenting particularly in stressful living conditions, resulting in problems in socialization of self-regulation for the next generation of children.