Lesson 7 - 2025-01-30 & 2025-02-03 - Risk Taking Flashcards
The effect of providing an adolescent with information about substance abuse, reckless driving, and unprotected sex is
improvement in young preoples thinking
but
seldomly changes behaviour
The modern view of adolescent risk-taking that it is
the product of logical reasoning and psyho-social factors
= competition between socioemotional (limbic system) and cognitive control networks (prefrontal cortex)
(I’m thinking through things and considering what is happening around me)
The psycho-social capacities are
resistance to peer influence
emotional regulation
delay of gratification
impulse control
psychosocial immaturity might undermine
competent descision making
during adolescence, this happens to the social emotional network
more assertive
causes more competition between amygdala and pre-frontal cortex
In the presence of peers, what happens?
emotional arousal
What does emotional arousal cause
socioemotional network (limbic system) to become more activated
diminishes regulatory effectiveness of cognitive control network
= more challenging for adolescents to control themselves
what causes the change of adolescent reward processing
puberty
Increased socioemotional network strength
drug use
The cognitive control network is responsible for
Planning
Impulse control
Stopping inappropriate behaviour
Delayed gratification
Decision making
The development of this ‘network’ is not dependent on puberty
The cognitive control network develops over the course of adolescence and young adulthood.
vulnerability to peer pressure is the greatest at this age
grade 9 = pre-adolescence and mid adolescence
Steinburg believes that this will prevent unhealthy risk-taking behaviours in adolescence
Limit opportunities for immature judgement
Adolescent egocentrism is dissected into two kinds of social thinking
- Imaginary Audience
- Personal Fable
Characteristics of the imaginary audience
Heightened self-conciousness - others are as interested in them as they are in themselves
Attention-getting behaviour - a desire to be noticed, visible, and on stage
Characteristics of the personal fable
Sense of uniqueness
“No one can understand how I really feel”
Characteristics of the Optimistic Bias
Known as superman syndrome
Tendency to assume accidents, diseases, and other misfortunes are more likely to happen to others than oneself
ONLY EXISTS FOR RISK OF ADDICTION
- Adolescents were either realistic or pessimristic about bad things happening to them.
