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Is your brain ready yet? - Coggle Diagram
Is your brain ready yet?
General Overview
Teen behavior: confident one moment, reckless the next
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Adolescence = challenging, erratic phase
Neurological Explanation
Prefrontal Cortex
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Controls logic, emotion, impulse
Synaptic Pruning
Starts at back of brain, moves forward
Strengthens used connections, eliminates unused
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Dopamine & Risk
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Prefer big rewards, ignore small ones
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Impulsive, but capable of rational thought
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Comparison with Adults
Brain speed, memory, pattern recognition decline
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Adults begin cognitive decline from age 27 (Salthouse, 2009)