Teen Driving And The Teen Brain: Video Analysis

“Send.” After typing out a lengthy text message, that was blatantly honest to my basketball coach I quickly hit send and for just moment felt completely satisfied. Then reality set, I had just basically told off my coach and I did not know what would happen when I arrived at the school the next morning. Acting off complete impulse and not thinking about the consequence is something children and teens do often. However, should the teenage “know better” and think about the results of there actions? Psychologist are leaning towards no, the part of the brain that is reasonable for decision making actually develops last, according to the textbook, when an individual is in their late twenties.
The Part of the brain that houses our decision making skill is the frontal lobe, which is at the front of your head. From what we learned in class the brain develops slowly overtime. Developing from the back to the front and the bottom to the top. Therefore, the young adult
In fact, the video also says that when teens are driving alone they are not near as likely to show risky behavior. This proves that one of the major dangers of the late development of the frontal lobe is giving in to peer pressure and wanting to be cool by driving fast or possibly drifting around a corner to show off. In the video they discussed laws that have been set in place to protect young drivers from themselves. One of theses laws being a limited number of passengers in the car with a teenage driver. One place that has this law is here in the state of Tennessee, when a sixteen-year-old receives there license they are only allowed to have one other teen in the car with them, the second of holding a license they can have two underage people in the car with them. When the diver turns eighteen they are finally granted with an unrestricted