Value Driven Attentional Capture Of Adolescence

Research depicts that teenagers fail to notice risks in a situation and completely process other ones when adults thoroughly examine the consequences and focus on the ending outcome. An article by Maia Szalavitz titled “Why the Teen Brain is Drawn to Risk” suggests that teens engage in drunk driving because they don’t completely scan the outcome of the situation, but they fully comprehend the risk of partaking in other activities that adults would immediately dismiss after looking at the possible outcomes such as Russian Roulette(Source F). This shows that adults quickly decide on seemingly dangerous actions because they view the finishing outcome of that activity while teems envision the whole activity and still choose to participate. On top of that, young adults are intrigued by unknown risks rather than known ones. Chris Sharma, a famous rock climber, mentions that he is "looking for new, hard climbs that no one has even thought possible" in a video named “Who Is Chris Sharma?”(Source G). This suggests that, as a young adult, he searches for climbs that have a high risk level that is unknown or ambiguous. Because adolescents have distinct judgment than that of an adults, they handle risky decision-making in another

A teenagers risk taking is a crucial part of their brains development and can significantly benefit their growth as a person. Recent test have shown that in social situations, teenagers are more likely to take risks. In the article, Beautiful Brains, the author, David Dobbs, discussed a study in which teenagers played a game alone, then with people in the room. “When teens drive the course alone, in what Steinberg calls the emotionally ‘cool’ situation of an empty room, they take risks at the same rates that adults do.” (Pbs.org) This shows that teenagers are capable of making good decisions and taking the same amount of risks as a developed adult. So many parents assume that they take unnecessary risk, when really, the teenager knows exactly

David Dobbs in the Article “Beautiful Brains” proves the theme that it takes teenage brains longer to mature due to the recent change in impulsivity and adolescent behaviors.

The control adolescents express over the choices they make, like the rise and fall of the tide, is fluid and dependant on multiple factors. These factors--biography, biology and current situation--are essential to the adolescent decision-making process as they manage to influence, but not control, the choices we make.

Researchers can look at the brain of a teen to examine their behavioral decisions.Teenage brains these years are more active and dynamic which means it’s still developing.Processing in the Limbic system is a result of risky behavior.The construction of a teenage thinking brain is not cable of fully processing necessary to make responsible decisions.At this stage the brain is still developing.The brain changes depending on interactions, helpimg the teen make changes. At this time the brain will need focused and support for a healthy connection.Surrounding impacts the child faces such as challenging situations is an effective technique.Parents need to consider the teens emotional

The article “Inside the Teen Brain’ by Marty Wolner, states that the human brain provides parents with shocking new evidence to possibly explain the sometimes irrational, illogical, and impulsive behavior of teenagers. Teenage years are radically more active and dynamic than they previously thought. So teenagers are left with most of the information reaching their brains being processed in the emotional part (limbic system). Information processed in the limbic system without benefit increases the processing in the prefrontal cortex. It may result in impulsive, egocentric, and maybe even risky behavior choices. The prefrontal cortex of the teenage brain does not excuse inappropriate or irresponsible behavior from the teen. The brain is not yet

The article “Inside the Teenage Brain” by Marty Wolner states that recently, brain researchers have been able to do a great quantity of detailed studies on the human brain. Despite previous thoughts about the teenage brain, development of the brain through the teenage years is very dynamic. The teenage brain is still learning how to process certain information properly in the thinking part of the brain, so often teens may not process all the information necessary to make responsible decisions. Nevertheless, the teenage years can be very stressful for both parents and for teens. Getting through the teenage years can be difficult, but with the right amount of healthy communication, discipline and support the road ahead won’t be so rough. At this

For example in the article titled “ Why are Teen Brains Designed for Risk-taking?” author named Nina Mounts explains that “ people often believe that teens engage in risky behavior because they are not very good at evaluating risk”(Mounts,1). In other words, teenagers make many risky decisions because they don’t know what’s going to happen once they make a certain choice. Romeo let his emotions get to him and didn’t think the consequences through, which is why he decided to marry Juliet. It’s very common for teenagers to let their emotions blind them from seeing the consequences that will occur after they made a risky decision.

1. In the article Denaturalizing Adolescence, Lesko defines adolescence in reference to teens between the ages of 12-17 (p. 156). She talks about the characteristics of adolescence; that we have framed within our society. They are seen as "hormonally driven, peer-oriented, and identity seeking" by the majority of adults (Lesko, 140). According to her adolescence was created in the 19th century during industrialization. Adolescents were ‘coming of age' into this "important, powerful, uncontrollable change" (Lesko, 148) and they needed to be disciplined. It was believed that the characteristics of adulthood were a direct reflection of the society around them; as teens couldn't make a decision for themselves.

Although, the brain of a teenager resembles and even acts like an adult brain, the one difference is that a teenage brain lacks cognitive maturity (Powell, 2006). During the teenage years, as nerve cells fight to survive, synapse connections become rewired and upgraded to other parts of the brain creating more complexity in the teenage brain. Studies show that teenagers tend to overuse the frontal cortex because they have trouble stopping impulsive reaction. Therefore, additional studies involving probing the teenage brain reveals at these times of frontal cortex overuse, a considerable amount of reconstruction is taking place. Furthermore, these reconstructions take place before other factors such as hormones, peer pressure, or unexplained rebellion come into play, affecting the teenager's ability to make decisions or control

Steinberg uses an increase in gas and a decreases in brakes as an example. Abigail Baird, a brain researcher, suggests that adolescence is much like a second toddler hood. The out-of-control actions that occur during adolescence are actually very critical to pre-adult learning. The neurotransmitter dopamine paired with the pre-frontal cortex is what makes risk-taking come out in the adolescence. According to B.J. Casey, areas of the brain involved with reward processing are much more active in teens than in younger children or adults. The teen brain reacts differently than adults when making decisions with the help of the amygdala and the insula. Adults rely on these parts of the brain, while studies have shown that teens insulae weren’t as active as adults while being asked “good or bad idea” questions. It took teens twice as much time to answer these questions. They were showing a frontal lobe response which impairs your decision making causing accidents and deaths all the time. The prefrontal cortex doesn’t begin to mature until the age of 25 which enables us to be better at inhibiting influential

Roper, Vecera and Vidya (2014) article “Value –driven attentional capture in adolescence” was written well and made strong correlations between adolescences and adults. The main arguments that was highlighted in this article was that there was a difference in attention between adolescences and adults however it was not the age that influenced each group but it 's the rewarding stimuli and cognitive processes that influences the difference in attention between

There are various cognitive aspects and socio-cultural aspects vital for shaping the adolescence journey to the adulthood. Hoffnung et al., (2016) explained that cognitive aspects include the development of formal operational thoughts which originates from early adolescence, more advanced in middle adolescence and late adolescence. Due to the immature frontal lobe of the brain, temporal lobe does the decision making and logical reactions in adolescence (Barkway, 2013). Hypothetical thinking develops and do not worry about the consequences and are more perspective takers. In the middle years, they start to think logically by identifying and rejecting the hypothesis and trying to find possible outcomes based on logic (Barkway, 2013). Abstract thinking develops in late adolescence,

Most adolescents at some point are forced to leave the comfortable life of being taken care of by there parents and are sprawled into an unknown world where they must develop the skill to take care of one’s self financially. This

The purpose of this issue paper is to compare and contrast two different articles one written by L.E. Berk in 2010 that explores lifespan development. The other article was written by the staff and research team at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford in 2012 that addresses what cognitive development is and the progress of adolescence cognitive development. Cognitive development begins from the moment of birth and continues throughout life. However, this student finds the cognitive abilities are more complex during the adolescent years. Therefore, the issue this paper will address is adolescence cognitive development.