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Module Six Lesson Four Teens and Risky Behaviors Debate Graphic Organizer

Teenagers engage in risky behaviors because their brains are undergoing significant development during adolescence. The prefrontal cortex, which controls decision making and risk assessment, develops last. This leaves teenagers more likely to engage in risky, reward-seeking, and experimental behaviors. Peer influence can also affect teenage decision making by activating reward centers in the brain. While teens are aware of risks, they have a greater tolerance for uncertainty and ambiguity compared to adults. [/SUMMARY]

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Module Six Lesson Four Teens and Risky Behaviors Debate Graphic Organizer

Teenagers engage in risky behaviors because their brains are undergoing significant development during adolescence. The prefrontal cortex, which controls decision making and risk assessment, develops last. This leaves teenagers more likely to engage in risky, reward-seeking, and experimental behaviors. Peer influence can also affect teenage decision making by activating reward centers in the brain. While teens are aware of risks, they have a greater tolerance for uncertainty and ambiguity compared to adults. [/SUMMARY]

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Prompt: Why do teenagers engage in risky behaviors?


Grounds Warrant Claim

Your teenage years are a “call to action”, setting As a teenager your brain swells up to the largest Teens’ perception of risk is especially different
the course for adulthood. it's ever been, “thirsting for the capacity of from those of adults.
experimentation”. As your brain tells you to push
these limits to experiment to ultimately gain
knowledge for the future.

Backing for your claim.


Be sure to use a correct MLA 8 in-text citation to credit the source of the quoted or paraphrased evidence provided.

Emotional Evidence from Sources Logical Evidence from Sources Ethical Evidence from Sources

-“Meanwhile, it’s interesting to note that while -Fact: “During adolescence, human brains swell -a Brain Games expert demonstrates how an
adults tend to prefer the certainty of misery to up to the largest they will ever be.” (Teenage audience of peers can affect teenagers' reward
the misery of uncertainty, as family therapist brain) systems and influence risky behavior. (Teenage
Virginia Satir once put it, the same may not be brain)
true for teens.”(Szalavitz, 2012). Teenage brain and behavior. Education. (n.d.).
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resour Teenage brain and behavior. Education. (n.d.).
Szalavitz, M. (2012, October 2). Why the teen ce/teenage-brain-and-behavior/ https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resour
brain is drawn to risk. Time. ce/teenage-brain-and-behavior/
https://healthland.time.com/2012/10/02/why- -“Research shows, that teens tend to wildly
the-teen-brain-is-drawn-to-risk/ overestimate certain risks, not to lowball them as -says Agnieszka Tymula, a postdoctoral
one would predict”(Szalavitz, 2012). student at New York University and the lead
-”After his son was pulled over for driving 113 author of the study, which was published in the
mph, science writer David Dobbs set out to - New studies show, this stems “from their Proceedings of the National Academy of
understand what researchers know about the greater tolerance to uncertainty and Sciences. Teens, it seems, love the unknown.
teenage brain.”(2011) ambiguity”(Szalavitz, 2012) (2011)

-“Researchers have actually found that they don't -“Relative to adults, adolescents engage more in -Dobbs and brain researchers BJ Casey and
think they're invincible. They know they can die. unknown risks than they do in known Dr. Jay Giedd share their findings on what
risks”(Szalavitz, 2012). science can tell us about the teenage brain.
(Szalavitz, 2012)
And they also don't underestimate risk”(2011) Szalavitz, M. (2012, October 2). Why the teen
brain is drawn to risk. Time.
NPR. (2011, September 20). Understanding the https://healthland.time.com/2012/10/02/why-
mysterious teenage brain. NPR. the-teen-brain-is-drawn-to-risk/
https://www.npr.org/2011/09/20/140637115/un
derstanding-the-mysterious-teenage-brain -So why might the teenage brain be wired this
way? Their greater tolerance for uncertainty and
the unknown — and an increased desire for and
focus on rewards (Szalavitz, 2012).

Rebuttal to your claim

From teens' excessive hormones and puberty flying through these adolescence years, it is important to keep your risk levels at hand and be safe at all
times focusing on the differences between adults and teens.

Backing for the rebuttal

I think as potential solution or even just a factor to aid and help would be engaging in allowing teens the opportunities to safely experiment through
simulations of real-world scenarios and what would happen as Tymula suggests in her analysis.

MLA 8 Citations for the Sources Used

NPR. (2011, September 20). Understanding the mysterious teenage brain. NPR. https://www.npr.org/2011/09/20/140637115/understanding-the-
mysterious-teenage-brain

Szalavitz, M. (2012, October 2). Why the teen brain is drawn to risk. Time. https://healthland.time.com/2012/10/02/why-the-teen-brain-is-drawn-to-
risk/

Teenage brain and behavior. Education. (n.d.). https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/teenage-brain-and-behavior/

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