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Your Teenaged Years…. Setting the patterns of your life. Surviving :) The Teenage Brain. How do stereotypes about teenagers influence your life? Why is the prefrontal cortex such an important part of your brain? What is the relationship between the prefrontal cortex and the limbic brain?
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Your Teenaged Years… Setting the patterns of your life
How do stereotypes about teenagers influence your life? • Why is the prefrontal cortex such an important part of your brain? • What is the relationship between the prefrontal cortex and the limbic brain? • Who builds/designs your brain? Why is this significant? • Dopamine is a huge factor in risk-reward behaviour, but why is this the case? • How does this connect with that TED Talk about not sharing your goals? • What is risk? Are there different kinds of risk? • What are some examples of good/bad risk? • What are the dangers teens specifically face when it comes to risk-reward behaviour? • What did Dr. Fisher’s study show about love and dopamine? Questions to Think About As we watch this episode of The Nature of Things, pay attention to and answer the questions to the right.What are you learning? What questions do you have because of what you have learned? What things have you learned that apply directly to you?