Peer group

most view it as an individual’s decision to use the drug. However, it is known that peer pressure often plays a large role in an individual’s choice to use marijuana. Going beyond the traditional understanding of peer pressure surfaces the question of how a person’s relationship with his friends affects the pressure to use marijuana. Does peer pressure have a larger impact when the individual considers his peers…

It’s a regular belief that teenagers are prone to taking dangerous risks. Yet these senseless risks teens are taking may be due to the way teenagers brains are wired. These dangerous choices are the results from the brain attempting to learn and become more flexible. According to the Time Magazine article “Why the Teen Brain is Drawn to Risk” teens take dangerous risks when the dangers involved are unknown to them. However, as a human with a teenage brain, I disagree. Teenagers are aware of the…

Amrhein, Lexie SR “College Pressures” Background William Zinsser was a Protestant, fourth-generation New Yorker, and a World War II sergeant. He earned degrees at multiple universities; two of them being in Indiana. He attended Rollins College, Wesleyan University, and the University of Southern Indiana. Zinsser was born October 7, 1922 in New York City. He married a teacher and historian, Caroline Fraser, in…

It is common for minors - understood as children under the age of 18 - to wish to be adults who can make their own rules and decisions, and to hold the perceived unrestrained freedom adults possess. This restraint and lack of freedom felt by minors, particularly teenagers, stems from the need for children to be parented and guided - a concept children and teens do not always grasp in the time of their youth. Yet one aspect of this “teen-angst” does ring true; minors do not always have the same…

A mood swing is a sudden change of mood or emotion of a person in a short period of time. Everyone experiences mood swings and it usually occurs to teenagers. Mood swings are innate to teenagers but it only develops as they reach their puberty stage depending on their perspective in life. It is a very common behavior to teens, although some of them do not pay too much attention with it. They couldn’t avoid this kind of behavior. Hence, they should all be informed about this kind of behavior and…

Research paper technology has developed with its different changes in the society. The field of technology affects all aspects in teenagers lives. Teenagers are getting used to it and it and its even unimaginable to live without it in all societies. It affects the way things are done in the school and in life, this has a great impact on their freedom and happiness. This paper discusses how technology has been influencing these aspects in adolescents lives. However, technology too has its own…

Do you wish you could help your family and be able to go anywhere? Now, imagine being a 16 year old wanting to do those things but can’t because you don’t have a job or can’t drive. The legal driving age should not be raised to 18 because teenagers need autonomy, it gives teenagers responsibility, and many teenagers have transportation issues. To start with, The legal driving age should remain at 16 because teenagers need autonomy. Teenagers need freedom, they need to live a little and…

mental health issues (Norrish & Vella-Brodrick, 2009). Similarly, Melnyk, Kelly, and Lusk (2014) proposed a group therapy technique using cognitive behavioral interventions called COPE, which focuses on the importance of altering negative thought patterns, maladaptive beliefs, and other cognitive processes in attempt to promote behavioral and emotional change. Instead of focusing on adolescent groups as a whole, a trial was conducted on a sample of sixteen adolescents identified as having…

doing is legal, they might be moved to make better and more reasonable choices. Some may argue that by lowering the drinking age, you would also be inviting even younger people to drink. However, the average underage drinker only drinks because of peer pressure. The pressure to drink doesn’t normally occur until kids reach high school. There would be no reason for underage kids to drink. Parents know the laws, and it would be pretty hard for a 12 year old to obtain alcohol without parental…

Kyle Lascano Psychology Chapter 4 Journal As developing adolescents progress in their growth towards striving and being productive for their societies, their future adult-selves may vary physiologically, cognitively, and morally. Depending on the culture they were exposed to, the possible results after adolescences will have major differences. I, myself, am a child that spent majority of his childhood in a culture that revolved around the Asian standards; however, certain circumstances have…