Teenage Brain Mature Enough To Make Decisions

The Teenage Brain Is the teenage brain mature enough to make decisions? The teenage brain goes through extreme changes when developing from birth through adulthood. When teenagers turn at the age of 18 they think they are developed and mature enough to do harder tasks and decisions. I disagree that the teenage brain is mature enough to make tough decisions because of adolescence, brain development or hormones, and emotions. Adolescence plays a big role for the development of the teenage brain. During adolescence the brain can be affected by many problems. According to the infographic #2, on the 4th paragraph, it says, “All the big changes the brain is experiencing may explain why adolescence is the time when many mental disorders emerge.” The information is saying

This connects to the theme because if you do get mental disorders in the brain because of adolescence it can badly affect of how you make decisions. As a teenager I think that this is a unpleasant aspect during adolescence because I am scared that it can affect others and I in the near future. Also according to “Teen Brain: Behavior, Problem Solving, and Decision Making”, it says, “Pictures of the brain in action show that adolescents' brains work differently than adults when they make decisions or solve problems. Their actions are guided more by the emotional and reactive amygdala and less by the thoughtful, logical frontal cortex.” Also it says the teenagers going through adolescence are more likely to to “act on impulse, misread or misinterpret social cues and emotions, get into accidents of all kinds, get involved in fights, and engage in dangerous or risky behavior.”(AACAP). It’s telling us the adolescent brain is less undeveloped and more