INTRODUCTION
1. Background
Teenagers on adolescence stage have major development task, as a full time students they need to study, they spend up to seven hours in school, which is why academic achievement is important thing in order to make teenagers feel successful. In learning process, there are several stages we will find. First the information we receive will be call as an input that comes to our brain then there are further processing called mental processor then the result will be seen when we expressing out the information. In learning activities, teenagers as students need to recall the information that has been input before.
On the other hand, to achieved an academic achievement teenagers nowadays have been faced to external distractions such as online games or the exposure of entertainment materials such as vulgar and porn materials in the media like internet.
Focus on vulgar images to porn, this paper try to find out how vulgar images affecting the ability of recalling memory or information on teenagers related to teenagers task development as students. On adolescence stage, male teenagers tend to be more interested to the things related to sexuality rather than female teenagers. It is because the testosterone inside of males’ body.
According to Geoff Price, a famous psychologist and book writer from United States of America, “It is normal for teenage boys to have some changes about the way they think. It usually started with the way they stop to think about their pets or favorite video games and continue with girls, girls, and girls. At puberty, boys will be unstable and stand at the highest point of their curiosity”. When the only thing attracts them is girl and they live in globalization era, they will usually end up at porn sites to satisfy their curiosity. If boys do this intensively, it will somehow become a habit that creates addiction and resulting in the decreasing quality on their recalling process
Further information
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