Overview
- How have you changed over the past 5 years? Take 5 minutes to write out how YOU have changed in the past five years. Which of these changes were gradual? Were any of them sudden?
*Think about: beliefs, physical changes, your identity, relationships, goals, ideas, things you know and/or have learned, and any other things you might think of.1 PARAGRAPH
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- What is an effective study technique that you have used? How is it similar to/different from the strategies suggested in Ch. 8 on Memory? (1 paragraph)
( Link ) Ch. 8 Introduction - Psychology 2e | OpenStax
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- Reflect on the reading you did and our conversation about the changes in the LIMBIC SYSTEM (sensation seeking/risk taking) and the PREFRONTAL CORTEX (decision making, long term planning) during adolescence. Then, consider the video that we watched about Juvenile False Confessions during lecture on 9/19 and answer the following questions.
- What developing structures in the adolescent brain are relevant to this discussion & how?
- What are the primary factors re: brain development that make adolescents especially susceptible to giving false confessions?
- What has changed in brain development that might make adults less likely to falsely confess? (...but they do it too!! Just less often)
( Link ) Ch. 7 Introduction - Psychology 2e | OpenStax
All of these can be brief not to long.