Comparing Two Articles About The Teenage Brain

Carol S. Dweck's article “Brainology – Transforming Student's Motivation to Learn” offers insights about student's mentality at school and why some students are better off than others. The article claims directly that students generally have two mindsets when it comes to learning; one is “fixed mindset,” a negative trait, and the other is “growth mindset,” a positive trait. Both of these traits contradict each other in terms of meaning. These two mindsets impact students on whether or not they will be successful on their academic road. In “Brainology – Transforming Student's Motivation to Learn,” Dweck explains how these two traits influence the outcome of having one of these two mindsets through

Paul Thompson in the article,Startling Finds on Teenage Brains,claims that over the last several years,as school shootings have seemed to occur with disturbing frequency. Thompson supports his claim by first describes fourteen year old Nathaniel Brazill´s case because he shot middle-school teacher Grunow. He then explains his and other people's research that is about the thoughts of teens like how he was talking about how he was working on mapping the patterns of brain growth.Lastly, the author explores into the fact that teens have a massive loss of brain tissue. Thompson´s purpose is to inform the reader the thoughts that teenagers have and how when people are teens they have the most brain tissue loss so that they themselves know the thoughts

Paul Thompson in the article, Startling Finds Teenage Brains, explains that a teen named Nathaniel Brazill was ruled by a Florida grand jury, who had previously ruled Brazill, was going to be tried as an adult. Thompson supports his explanation by first analyzing the problem and if Brazill had been tried before. He then investigates the situation and why teens decide to commit crimes. Lastly, the author explains how there was a university that researched why teens act the way they do. They were surprised at what they found out. They found out that massive loss of brain tissue occurs in the teen years. Thompson’s purpose is to show why teens commit crimes and act the way they act in order so that their parents take care of their teens and so

On this article talks about how a study found the massive lack of tissues that occurs as we grow up. Thompson explains the develop of the brain and how it damages the teenager, which at some points it can affect the decision and growth of the youth. The reason why I will use this article is because it explains how psychology and mentally the teenager does things without them knowing why.

The author of the article states that there is no better time than now to review how we are raising teenagers for many reasons. First and foremost there have been many strides taken recently to understand how the adolescent brain develops, strengthening ones understanding, and in turn, shedding light on errors made in the way adolescents are being raised in relation to their neuro-development. This means that because scientists have learned substantial information about the brain recently, it is important to reevaluate how parents are raising teenagers now more than ever. Second, according to the article it is a good time to review how we are raising teenagers because children are becoming adolescents earlier based on their physical maturation increasing faster each year, therefore it is important to examine why this is occurring. Finally, the author states that there is no better time to review how we are raising teenagers because of the recent discovery that the brain is malleable during adolescence due to neuroplasticity, meaning that the brain is able to be transformed during this time period solely based on the environment in which these individuals are exposed to, as per the article (Steinberg, 2014).

Carol Dweck in the article “Brainology " talks about the different mindsets that create separate psychological worlds. The first mindset being a growth mindset. Believing you can you can work to gain intelligence, you get praised for hard work. Rather than having a fixed mindset where you believe you don't gain intelligence ether you’re born with it or not. People with the fixed mindset receive praise for their intelligence, requiring no work. "Those with a growth mindset had a very straightforward idea that the harder you work the more ability will grow even Geniuses had to work for their accomplishments.” Brainology raises students’ achievement by helping gain a growth mindset. Students that have a fixed mindset believe their intelligence

"Life is what you make out of it: one can go through it and let things pass them by, or a person can actually go out and get what he or she wants in that life." These are common words repeatedly embedded into my head by my father, as maybe the same from one of your parent's. In the Time of the Butterflies is a book about sisters that fight to take their god-given right of freedom in the Dominican Republic. To win this freedom, the Mirabal sisters had to give up their safety, give up their childhoods, and give up their lives. Julia Alvarez, the author of the book, takes the readers through these sisters journey's of fighting against their dictator Trujillo, and the many hardships while under this political oppression. It is evident in

This article begins to talk about how adolescents around the world are committing crimes that are not safe for them or the community. The point of this article was to prove a point through research to see if a sex offender registry list would be a beneficial deterrence method. This research was not created to solely deter adolescents, but it was designed to be a general deterrence (Najdowski, C.J, et al., 2015).

I started my education in Erie, Pennslyviana.I attend McDowell High. I would say that we were one of the richer schools were I live. I am going to talk about my first assignment Brainology. I thought it was very interesting and it thought me a lot about how some people have different mindsets.

As human being, people need to socialize with others. People cannot live alone; men should look for women to be a pair, family needs looking for other family to build community. Therefore, they can help each other and make life easier. What will happen if there is a person who has abnormality like bipolar disorder in community? Does he or she should live alone or be forced to live alone? Every human in this world has equal privileges, one of them is socialization. Belmanaker, R. H. (2004) explains that bipolar disorder I can be made community insecure because they can make violent activity since the sufferers tend to have euphoria or irritable mood, gain sexual activity and aggressive activity. However, it is appears not to be true that bipolar disorder I does not required to live with other in society. Therefore, it is better for them to have supervisor in their activity and government has an important role to set the supervision.

The article “Inside the Teenage Brain” by Marty Wolner states that recently, brain researchers have been able to do a great quantity of detailed studies on the human brain. Despite previous thoughts about the teenage brain, development of the brain through the teenage years is very dynamic. The teenage brain is still learning how to process certain information properly in the thinking part of the brain, so often teens may not process all the information necessary to make responsible decisions. Nevertheless, the teenage years can be very stressful for both parents and for teens. Getting through the teenage years can be difficult, but with the right amount of healthy communication, discipline and support the road ahead won’t be so rough. At this

For example, In the article Kids are Kids - Until they Commit Crimes by Marjie Lundstrom it states ¨they can't smoke, or drink, or go to R movies without the parents OK. It's why they don't vote. It is why they have curfews. Its why we fret over their internet access and fees about driving privileges¨(1, 3). They have curfews and rules for a reason. It is because they are not adults and should not be treated like one when they make a mistake. Girls reach the end of puberty around age 18, and boys at the age of 20. For example, in the article Startling Find on Teenage Brains by Paul Thompson it states “brain cells and connections are only being lost in the areas controlling impulses, risk taking, and self control. These frontal lobes, which inhibit out violent passion, rash actions, and regulate our emotions, are vastly immature throughout the teenage years”(1, 7). This tells us that that teenage brain does not work like adult brains. Teenager do not have full control over their brain because they have a massive loss of brain tissue that occurs in the teen years.

Brain Gym is something that has been a popular way to make everyone physically active since around the 1980s. It is an easy and simple way to get up, get moving, and be active for the day. Brain Gym is a specific set of movements, exercises, activities, and programs that are meant to keep people moving and active so they can stay fit. “The basic idea behind Brain Gym is that the brain will develop, and learning will be enhanced, by certain bodily movements” (Skeptic’s). Teaching brain gym to younger kids helps develop their brain more and teaching it to older people in high school and beyond will help keep their brain functions sharp and help them learn better in school as well. Brain Gym is a successful way to improve you overall physical activity and helps to maintain a very healthy lifestyle.

Brain is one of the most important body organs, which need a lot of care for it to act well and long time. Many people have no Idea why they never get the best from their brain, simply because they put it for use to certain kind of life style that robs them of their brain power and ability. The following tips are sure way an individual can influence and improve healthy brain.

The teenage brain is still under construction and there are many things that distinguish it from the adult brain. There are physical factors that make the two in comparison so different. Also the behavior and the way teens and adults interact and think, makes their brains vary. In addition, there are some things that contribute either positively or negatively to the development to the teen brain, and it