http://videos.howstuffworks.com/hsw/11837-health-the-teenage-brain-video.htm
About the video clip: In the experiment, the intelligent teen struggles with judging facial emotions. According to the video, the amygdala, responsible for feeling emotions, develops first, and teens overestimate an emotional reward from a risky behavior until the prefrontal cortex, responsible for inhibition and planning, is fully developed in adulthood. The narrator emphasizes that even the genius teen has an underdeveloped brain compared to adults’.
What the video implies: All teenagers innately have undeveloped brains no matter how smart they are.
Critique: Does having a college degree at the age of 12 mean the same as being able to make moral judgments? One point to question the video clip is that we are not sure if the teenage genius had as much time as ordinary adults to experience judging others’ facial expressions. That is, it is possible that the teenage genius could have done better if he had more socialized before. And some adults who have not socialized well could only do as much as the teen genius did. In short, we never know if teenagers tend to behave badly because of their innate developmental period or because of the amount of social experience.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IysnctaEAk&feature=related
The above link is to a TV show telling why teens do something risky, (as if adults never do…)
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I really enjoyed watching this video clip. I like the fact that it brings up a few different questions as far as when the teenage brain develops what amount of social development is included? I also really like the point you made about a fifteen year old genius possible not having much social maturity since it is not determined how much time he spends socializing (utilizing his amygdala) instead of learning new information.
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