Beautiful Brains P25-29

What should we look at to understand the adaptive adolescent?

• Specific behaviors

• Broader traits

• Distracting behaviors

• Teenager's hobbies

What is the purpose of looking at broader traits?

• To understand specific adolescent behaviors

• To ignore distracting behaviors

• To realize how dopey adolescents truly are

• To focus on the teenager's hobbies

What should we focus on when trying to understand the adaptive adolescent?

• Specific behaviors

• Distracting behaviors

• Broader traits

• Teenager's hobbies

Which of the following is an example of a broad trait that adolescents have?

• Skateboarding down stairways

• Dating fast company

• Risk-taking

• Driving drunk

Which of the following is an example of a broad trait that adolescents have?

• Driving drunk

• Getting into an accident

• Loving a thrill

• Driving too fast

Which of the following definitions best matches the word in bold?

 "...we get better at balancing impulse, desire, goals, self-interest...and even altruism."

• Acting from impulse

• Being psychologically healthy

• Caring about others

• Being deceitful

Which of the following definitions best matches the word in bold?

"These studies help explain why teens behave with such vexing inconsistency."

• internal

• obvious

• annoying

• new

What is most likely the author's main claim?

• "Even as the work-in-progress story spread into our culture, the discipline of adolescent brain studies learned to do some more-complex thinking of its own."

• "We all like new and exciting things, but we never value them more highly than we do during adolescence."

• "Viewed through the eyes of evolution, [teens'] most exasperating traits may be the key to success as adults."

• "If offered an extra reward, however, teens showed they could push those executive regions."

Which of the following definitions best matches the word in bold?

"A love of novelty leads directly to useful experience."

• risks

• books

• newness

• socializing

What is one main claim that the "works in progress" theory has that differs from the "adaptive-adolescent" theory?

• The "works in progress" theory suggests that adolescents adapt easily to new environments

• The "works in progress" theory suggests adolescents are perfectly wired to move from home into the world

• The "works in progress" theory suggests adolescents have small, immature brains

• The "works in progress" theory views adolescents in a more positive light