What clearly peaks in adolescence is an interest in exploration and novelty seeking. Adolescents are by necessity engaged in exploring essential questions about themselves — who they are, what skills they have and who among their peers is worth socializing with.
But these explorations are not necessarily conducted impulsively. Rising levels of dopamine in the brain during adolescence appear to drive an increased attraction to novel and exciting experiences. Yet this “sensation seeking” behavior is also accompanied by increasing levels of cognitive control that peak at the same age as adolescents’ drive for exploration. This ability to exert cognitive control peaks well before structural brain maturation, which peaks at about age 25.
Researchers who attribute this exploratory behavior to recklessness are more likely falling prey to stereotypes about adolescents than assessing what actually motivates their behavior.
If adolescents were truly reckless, they should show a tendency toward risk-taking even when the risks of bad outcomes are known. But they don’t. In experiments where the probabilities of their risks are known, adolescents take fewer risks than children.

The author believes that teens’ actions are…

A. more exploratory than thoughtless.
B. never truly putting them at risk.
C. risky to themselves and others.
D. driven by their hormone levels.

honestly, school in itself just seems to be a huge waste of time. a lot of people graduate but still end up not doing anything in college anyways, which really makes the whole point of graduating seem useless. i'd rather not bring anyone's hopes up then. what i'd recommend is for whoever's reading this to simply drop out.

i mean, kanye did it. he said something along the lines of, "don't let society tell you what to do." now, he's obviously a very successful person, and since his album is called the college dropout i guess he never really had to go through all that nonsense in order to become a millionaire. the same goes for anyone else then.

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what arguments, appeals, and rhetorical strategies did patrick henry use in 1775 to persuade reluctant members of the second virginia convention to develop a military response to british aggression or n 1775 american independence was not a foregone conclusion. while there had been unrest and resistance in massachusetts with scattered acts of support from other areas, no organized movement toward revolution existed across the colonies. virginia ranked among the largest, wealthiest, and most populous colonies in 1775, and her political and military support for independence would be crucial for success. in this speech patrick henry (1736–1799) uses powerful rhetoric to convince influential, affluent, landed men of virginia with much to lose to move past their current diplomatic posture opposing british aggression to the more treasonous one of open military preparedness. hope it

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i just had to do some research a while stayed up all night