Who Comprised Your Cliques

The author of the article states that there is no better time than now to review how we are raising teenagers for many reasons. First and foremost there have been many strides taken recently to understand how the adolescent brain develops, strengthening ones understanding, and in turn, shedding light on errors made in the way adolescents are being raised in relation to their neuro-development. This means that because scientists have learned substantial information about the brain recently, it is important to reevaluate how parents are raising teenagers now more than ever. Second, according to the article it is a good time to review how we are raising teenagers because children are becoming adolescents earlier based on their physical maturation increasing faster each year, therefore it is important to examine why this is occurring. Finally, the author states that there is no better time to review how we are raising teenagers because of the recent discovery that the brain is malleable during adolescence due to neuroplasticity, meaning that the brain is able to be transformed during this time period solely based on the environment in which these individuals are exposed to, as per the article (Steinberg, 2014).

Recent research has shown that the human brain continues to develop throughout childhood and adolescence, and may not be fully mature until the mid-20s. The prefrontal cortex of the brain, which regulates “executive” functioning skills, such as decision-making, planning, judgment, expression of emotions, and impulse control, is one of the last to

In Paul Thompson’s, “Startling Finds on Teens’ Brains” he writes, “The biggest surprise in recent teen-brain research is the finding a mass loss of brain tissue occurs in the teen years.” Later in the article Thompson explains the parts of the brain affected by this tissue loss, “frontal lobes, which inhibit our violent passions, rash decisions, and regulate our emotion.” These are vital parts of the brain for decision making and how we thoroughly process thought. Also, throughout a child’s life different parts of the brain are developing and changing at different moments in time. As children develop how are we supposed to keep track of something that is changing rapidly and not even fully understand the developed adult brain. Even though a juvenile might have an idea of the heinous crime they commit this does not mean they had fully thought through the consequences nor the full extent of the bad they have

My primary group is a triad that consists of three close friends. The ties that binds me into their friendship is my best friend Kim. I met the other two friends through her because they were her close friends in high school and currently in college. After hanging out almost everyday I began to connect with each one of them and became an addition to the group.

Even though from time to time I struggle with all three of the roadblocks, the one I struggle with the most is a clique. A “clique” according to Covey is a group of friends who are so exclusive that they reject everyone who is not exactly like them (191). It has come to my attention that my four closest friends and I are considered to be in a clique. I never thought of us as being a clique, but rather as just five best friends who can be themselves around each other and who have been friends for years. I can understand people thinking it as being exclusive, because I can definitely say for sure that the four others are the greatest men to ever walk Airport Road. People who have called our group, “exclusive,” are incorrect because it did not

While traveling through the journey of life I developed an outlook on people and different cliques. Walking through the hallway at school the groups of people in their crowds are always apparent. On social media the cliques are just as noticeable as the next one. If two different people interacted from mutual cliques, it became known and talked about behind peoples back. My belief that cliques can't expand and interact with others began to be challenged at the end of my junior year.

At Eximius College Preparatory Academy their was many cliques such as jock,nerds, anime and etc. Nevertheless, everybody was friendly because we saw a small school. Furthermore, the clique that I belong to was the nerd/anime group. Everyone would label us as nerd/ anime group because all we would discuss is grades or how could we improve assignments to get a better grade or Anime " Japanese cartoon". In fact, this clique help me to improve my grades because we all would try to build one another up as a student and friends. Lastly, the labels associated with the different group at my school didn't influence how we thought about the individual members of each

Our team has been focusing on the Inclusion pillar, to help develop relationships on the team. A specific issue addressed on the team is the sense of “cliques” providing a difficult challenge of bringing everyone together as one team, the importance of which was recently highlighted in an email sent by Dan Schulman. I was guilty of this. I spend my free time at work with certain individuals who I have come to form a friendship with. Getting out of my comfort zone is one of my greatest areas in need of development. I have pushed myself to develop relationships with others on my team. Whether it be by recognizing someone else’s outstanding performance on a case or trusting others for their input to help collaborate on cases, I have worked to

Group members can be classified into one of four social styles, analytic, driver, expressive, or amiable (Griffith, & Dunham, 2015).

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,

One of Simmels’ arguments was that people usually live in a limited amount of small social circles (Simmel, 1950). I would say that even in modern times, this still rings true for many, including myself. In historic times, we would have been involved in a guild or church, which would have been part of a wider organization, and nowadays, I believe that my groups are of a similar format.

Cliques-are that of an average of six persons and travel in packs, in which case they are all friends. These cliques are of people who have similar interests and diversity. Although there is a group effort in a clique, in which “boosting teens’ self-esteem by giving them a place to belong.” (Healy, 2010) there are also the downsides of “"the notion of friendship is still critical, but it's becoming much more complicated," said Bernardo Carducci, a professor of psychology at Indiana University Southeast. (Healy, 2010) in which case, there is the lack of ties with cliques.

People like to form cliques when there’s a common interest, but a person can feel isolated when

In the context of parties of people, I was particularly interested in finding the patterns of social acceptance, and the ways that people incorporate themselves into groups. An example of such acceptance can be the pattern of individuals who completely ignore groups around them by staring at their phone; compared to those who strike conversations with people they haven’t met before. Addressed, also, are ways that people use more passive technique to identify themselves and how this resembles their social circle.

As I look back on high school, I remember walking through the hallways and seeing people and groups of all kinds. The hallways were lined, side to side, with different groups of different people with different ideas and opinions. I, myself, was part of a clique also. However, my clique inter-mingled with other cliques as we exchanged our ideas, opinions, and experiences. There were some other cliques that did the same as they did not isolate themselves from the rest of high school life. However, there were also the other kinds of groups which committed themselves to that group, and they did isolate themselves from everyone else.