Adolescent's Brain

She sits there, a fifteen year old ball of emotions just waiting to burst. In class she thinks as hard as she can, trying to make connections between the things on the board. She does her work and turns it in, hoping for a good grade. It is hard to imagine that sixteen years later she is calm, content, and confident. Time makes a lot of differences one of which is to the brain itself. There are many ways the adolescent’s brain is different from an adults. One reason that an adolescent's brain is different from an adults is that a child’s brain is not fully developed. Most adolescents have a lack of impulse control. They cannot resist things that are tempting. If one of their friends is doing something risky that may harm themselves and
One way the young adults brain processes information differently is by breaking apart images. For example, if a picture is shown to a child of a birthday party they will break the image down into sections they will recognize that there is a birthday cake, lots of people, presents. From that they will draw a conclusion that this could be a birthday party. If an adult is shown the same picture they do not need to break the image apart. They can look at the entire image at once and know within a couple seconds that it is a birthday party. A second way that the two types of brains are different is that as adolescents, it is hard to control immediate emotional responses to things. Instances such as getting news that a family member has died would be processed differently between adolescents and adults. Most adolescents would immediately disappear in a puddle of their tears and not be able to control it. They would not process the information that they got and think about it. Parents would get upset with their child because this is representing a lack of self-control, they can not keep composure and that is a very frustrating thing. With an adult it is heard that they “take things better”. This simply means that they are able to process the information and think about it before having a proper emotional outcome. They are more able to control their emotional responses than teens. Because adolescents process information differently than an adult they will also perform tasks