Teenage Abstract Thinking


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Teenage abstract thinking

                                In this informative article “Beautiful Teenage Brain” (2005) by David Dodds, Dodds entails on the differences between adult and teenage thinking. Dodds uses science and examples from different teenager’s experiences to support his claim that although teens and adults have the same brain overall, teenagers don’t evaluate risks as much as adults do. The purpose of this article was to convince the audience in order to explain the differences between teenagers and adults. The audience are people that are interested in science, and adults reading the National Geographic.

I agree with the concept that teenagers evaluate risk and reward differently. The reason being is because teens believe that if the reward is higher than the risk, then doing the risk no matter what it may be brings them closer to their reward. The example used in the essay were video games- Dobbs (the author) stated that when teens are alone in the room playing video games they are likely to take things at their own pace. Rather than if they had a friend in the room, they would be more inclined to take more of a risk possibly because they thought that the reward had somehow doubled.

In the article "Beautiful Teenage Brains", the author supports his point by providing details and statistics from tests that he ran himself. For example, "When teens drive the course alone, in what Steinberg calls the emotionally “cool” situation of an empty room, they take risks at about the same rate that adults do." This is an example of how the author tries to convince us of his point by relating his observations from an experiment he ran using a video game. According to the text, "In this case, Steinberg added friends: When he brought a teen’s friends into the room to watch, the teen would take twice as many risks, trying to gun it through lights he’d stopped for before." This is another example of how Dodds supports his argument with his observations from his video game experiment. Dodds states his claims then proceeds to provide proof behind it throughout the article.



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“LaunchPad Solo for Readers and Writers.” Macmillan Launchpad: Login,         www.macmillanhighered.com/launchpadsolo/readwrite/7317246/Home#/launchpad/item/

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