Dual Process Model

One of the factors that make adolescents to strive for freedom and making independent decisions evolve due to the way brain develops and adapts. Since the limbic system is the bench of emotions where rewards are experienced and matures earlier than the prefrontal cortex that is basically the “judgement” region, adolescents are not capable of taking decisions under judgement and strive for decisions without reasoning the consequences of good and bad decisions. Therefore, adolescents do not engage in higher level cognitive analysis about a decision, which is somehow correlated to the disjunction that exists between the limbic system maturing earlier than the prefrontal cortex that is not well developed during adolescence. In addition, the fuzzy trace theory details how verbatim memory trace consists of precise details without thinking nor analyzing the information. Similarly, adolescents take decisions without reasoning and they prefer looking for peer suggestions rather than thinking critically on their own. For example, an adolescent who makes either a good or a bad decision has somehow to be related with peer influences because they are not capable yet of making decisions on their own so they tend to “follow the crowd” and in this event, is when it is said that social context …show more content…
The analytical view involves the conscious and explicit application of an analytical approach to make the decision. In contrast, the experiential system involves the activation of episodic memories that can be used to guide judgements and decisions rather than relying on logical processing. However, to get benefited from this system the adolescent is required to be able of managing his or her impulses, but that is a vague instance since adolescents lack self-