Quick Write:
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1.)How does Ms. Blakemore define adolescence?
-Starts at puberty

2.)How long does it last?
- Ends in the early 30's

3.)What is the significance of the prefrontal cortex?
-One of the brain regions that changes most dramatically during adolescence.

4.)Which section is this on the diagram we viewed yesterday?
-Executive Processes

5.)What is synaptic pruning and what is the significance of the process?
-Synaptic pruning is the elimination of unwanted synapses. You prune away the weaker branches so that the remaining, important branches, can grow stronger, and this process, which effectively fine-tunes brain tissue according to the species-specific environment, is happening in prefrontal cortex and in other brain regions during the period of human adolescence.

6.)What is the social brain?
-How good we are at reading other people's behavior, their actions, their gestures, their facial expressions, in terms of their underlying emotions and mental states.

7.)Explain the design and results of the experiment in which adolescents were compared to adults in seeing things from another person's perspective.
-adolescents and adults use a different mental approach, a different cognitive strategy, to make social decisions, and one way of looking at that is to do behavioral studies whereby we bring people into the lab and we give them some kind of behavioral task, the adolescents did pretty well with the first task but when they were asked to put the same task into the others person perspective adults were able to do it much better the adolescents.

8.)Describe the difference between the limbic system and the prefrontal cortex in teenagers and adults.
-The limbic system is right deep inside the brain, and it's involved in things like emotion processing and reward processing. It gives you the rewarding feeling out of doing fun things, including taking risks. It gives you the kick out of taking risks, The prefrontal cortex is the front part of your brain witch thinks before taking risks.
 
9.)Do you see your own adolescence as a problem or an opportunity?Explain.
- I Don't see my own adolescence as a problem, i often try to understand people's reasoning as to just arguing or debating about something im very understanding.

10.)Make one suggestion you have for educators based on this Ted Talk.
-The environment, including teaching, can and does shape the developing adolescent brain.