Unit 3.1 Review

However, the picture is more complicated than the stereotype of the reckless and thrill-seeking adolescent suggests. First, while risk-taking in adolescence can lead to injury and illness, including long-term problems associated with smoking, drinking, taking drugs and committing crime, it is worth noting that death is fortunately rare, with survival rates of North American high-school students at over 99.5 per cent. The risks most adolescents take do not result in serious harm—to themselves or other people. Even for less extreme risks, there are large individual differences: some individuals are risk-takers, while others are not.

SELECT 2 WAYS THE AUTHOR USES PARAGRAPH 3 TO CONVEY HER PURPOSE.

• To illustrate the need for stronger punishments to discourage negative behaviors.

• To describe the often fatal accidents that result from adolescents acting without thinking.

• To contrast the stereotype of reckless adolescents with the reality of their risk taking.

• To emphasize the dangers that adolescents are exposed to on a daily basis.

• To provide examples of why adolescent behavior isn't as harmful as people think.

Select the word from that comes from a Latin word meaning “get in addition” or “seek to obtain”. (V.1.2)

Twitter's acquisition of TikTok caused an uproar online, with millions of TikTok users fleeing the app in droves.

• acquisition

• uproar

• fleeing

• droves

Inductive reasoning...

• Makes a conclusion based on facts.

• Begins with a specific observation, then makes a generalization based on that.

• Begins with facts and then makes a claim based on opinions.

• Is a probable conclusion based on opinions.

Abductive reasoning...

• Makes a conclusion based on facts.

• Begins with a specific observation, then makes a generalization based on that.

• Begins with a specific observation and then makes the likeliest conclusion.

• Is a probable conclusion based on opinions.

I tend to catch colds when people around me are sick. Thus, colds are infectious.

This is an example of which type of reasoning?

• Abductive

• Inductive

• Deductive

• Fallacy

You find a half-eaten sandwich on the kitchen counter. You reason that your brother, who eats a sandwich for breakfast every day, made the sandwich and then saw that he was late for school You make conclude that, he was in a rush and will return to eat it. WHAT TYPE OF REASONING IS THIS?

• Abductive

• Inductive

• Deductive

• Fallacy

"Teachers often have to encourage young people to ask or answer questions in class, guess an answer in a text, try new lines of argument and so on. These are risks, and apparently adolescents don’t like taking them. And, when adolescents do take risks, there’s probably good reason for it." WHAT TYPE OF REASONING DOES THE AUTHOR USE TO SUPPORT HER CLAIM THAT ADOLESCENTS AREN'T RECKLESS RISK TAKERS?

• Inductive: Adolescents have already shown that they can't be trusted to make good decisions.

• Inductive: Adolescents have already shown that they are more careful with taking risks than is commonly thought

• Abductive: Giving adolescents fewer opportunities to take risks will improve their behavior.

• Abductive: Giving adolescents more opportunities to take risks will lead to a better society.

Fallacy is...

• An unbiased argument

• A failure in understanding the claim

• A strong argument

• A failure in reasoning that leads to an invalid argument

"Smoking, binge-drinking, experimenting with drugs, unsafe sex, dangerous driving—all are more common in adolescents than in adults. Society stereotypes adolescents, and particularly adolescent boys, as reckless risk-takers. But is it as simple as this? Do all adolescents take risks? In some contexts, adolescents actually avoid risk-taking." WHAT FALLACY DOES THE AUTHOR SAY ADULTS MAKE THAT UNDERMINES THEIR ARGUMENT ABOUT TEENS BEING RECKLESS?

• The fallacy oversimplifies the dangers of adolescence.

• The fallacy generalizes that most teenagers take reckless risks.

• The fallacy ignores the harmful behavior of children.

• The fallacy criticizes parents for their role in encouraging risky behavior.

Select a quote that supports the central idea that adolescence is universal.

• Perhaps part of the reason why adolescents are mocked is that they do sometimes behave differently from adults.

• I will show you how we study the way the brain develops during these years, how that development shapes adolescent behavior, and how it ultimately goes on to define the people we become.

• First, you can see behaviors that we typically associate with adolescence, such as risk-taking, self-consciousness and peer influence, in many different human cultures, not just those in the West.

• So what is adolescence? It’s not a straightforward question to answer. Some people think of adolescence as equivalent to the teenage years.