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

question 69

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. According to the textbook, these improvements seem to be due to all of the following except:

• A) the decline in the extent to which decisions are influenced by their potential to produce an immediate reward.
• B) the increase in the ability to give equal weight to the potential costs and benefits of a decision.
• C) the increase in the ability to control their impulses.
• D) the increase in the probability that decision making is influenced by emotions.

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