With Age, Adolescents Become More Likely to Consider Both the Risks

question 53

Multiple Choice

With age, adolescents become more likely to consider both the risks and benefits associated with the decisions they make and more likely to weigh the long-term consequences of their choices, and not just the immediate ones. These improvements seem to be due to which of the following?

• A) the decline in the extent to which decisions are influenced by their potential immediate rewards
• B) being more drawn to the potential benefits of a decision than the potential costs
• C) decreases in self-regulation during middle and late adolescence
• D) the increase in the probability that decision making is influenced by emotions

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