Peer pressure

I had to pull the authors key points for how they came to their conclusion. This was a new skill I had to learn and it took some practice, something I had some experience from in the peer reviews. When I had to do peer reviews for other people, I had to understand their own style of reading and why they write the way they do and give my own suggestions with their own writing style in mind. My paper was written clearly, but I had rushed through the…

Tyanna McCants Evolution & Behavior May 25 2017 Block: 2 Why is the teen brain drawn to take risks? How are teen brains different from adult brains? Well what I know is different is that a teens brain isn’t fully developed like an adult’s brain. We may not comprehend things as fast as adults would. There’s a surge of activity in the brain region called the ventral striatum when reality exceeds a person’s expectations. It is a…

Why are teenagers so notorious for making impulsive decisions? The three articles, “The Teen Brain: Still Under Construction”, “Why Are Teenagers So Impulsive”, and “Why Teenagers May Be Smarter Than You Think,” may help to clarify this. While it may seem that teenagers make their spontaneous decisions based on randomness or pure thoughtlessness, a better explanation of adolescence irrationality would be a lack of brain development, or rather a difference between the maturity of the teen and…

people who offer advice to them. I am a teenager, so I thought I could share a few ideas with you that may help improve the lives of other teenagers. Some teenagers are afraid to try new things because they do not want fail and be made fun of by their peers. Offer teenagers encouragement to get up and have fun by trying new things. They could find out that they are great at something that they had no clue on. Even if they don’t succeed at something they might get some new ideas for something…

“Hey girl, what are you wearing?” If those words sound all too familiar, you’ve probably been getting sexted. Sexting can be going on right next to us and we don’t even know it. If you’re in a business meeting, at a park, at the mall, or even at school, don’t peak at anyone’s phone, because you might not like what you see. Sexting is quite literally all around us at any given time. Everyone wants to be a part of sexting, but what is it, why do people do it, and what happens when it all goes…

The Copley Medal is a scientific award that is given out by the Royal Society and awarded to a scientist that shows achievements in research in any branch of science. As members of the Royal Society it is our duty to nominate and pick scientists that rightly deserve the medal. It is our job as the Royal Society to discuss these nominations in a scholarly way and not disrespect any of the finding of other scientist. The scientists’ theories are important to science because they add value to the…

Adolescence is a common socially accepted time of substance use and experimentation with drugs and alcohol. Socially accepted norms have long justified teen substance use as ubiquitous and as a rite of passage to adulthood. However, increasing amounts of research have provided evidence that substance use in adolescence increases chances of adulthood addiction as well as many other physical health problems, interfering with brain development, and resulting in poor social outcomes. While…

Picture this… You are in 8th grade running around at basketball practice going through your drills when you look around and realize that one of your teammates is not at practice. You think to yourself that it is really weird because he never misses practice. That’s the last you really question it until you hear the gymnasium doors swing open. You look over to the doors and see your teammate walk through the door. You see he has wires hooked up to his chest and connected to a machine. You over…

Using “Mentoring Programs: A Framework to Inform Program Development, Research, and Evaluation” (2006) I realized that the term “peer mentoring” has been used to describe a variety of different things, such as cross-age peer mentoring, peer tutoring, and peer education to name a few (Karcher et al., 2006, p. 712). Dictionary.com defines the word peer as: “a person who is equal to another in abilities, qualifications, age, background, and social status.” It also defines the word mentor as:…

was looking for. This was also the first class I was exposed to the peer review process and enjoyed digging into content that had been scrutinized though this rigorous process. Searching through colligate databases for relevant articles that pertained to the disorders which were being discussed facilitated deep understanding of the content. Learning how to navigate the data base and gaining a loose understanding of how peer reviewed articles are organized armed me with an extremely valuable…