Adolescent Risk- Developmental Psychology

introduction added these points. *The stage of adolescence is characterized by substantial transformations in several domains, such as physical, cognitive and social development. * postulates that the adolescent brain undergoes substantial transformations during this phase of development, particularly within the neural regions responsible for reward processing and decision making. * During adolescence, the reward system in the brain exhibits increased sensitivity, leading to a greater propensity among adolescents to actively seek and derive pleasure from new experiences. *Adolescents show a tendency to be risk averse and may refrain from participating in activities involving even minimal levels of risk

*The ability of ideas to transcend time and space and continue to exist long after their creators have been forgotten is perhaps the most remarkable quality of ideas. Ideas have a life of their own.

References

Steinberg, L. (2007). Risk taking in adolescence: New perspectives from brain and behavioral science. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 16, 55C59.

"Ideas Are Immortal." Big Think, 30 Sept. 2021, https://bigthink.com/articles/ideas-are-immortal/.