Piaget introduced the concept of the \"personal fable\"which can be described as
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Piaget introduced the concept of the "personal fable"which can be described as an adolescents belief that he or she is an extremely unique and special individual. There are severa; aspects to this fable, one of which is a sense of invulnerability or invicibility. Many teens engage in risky behavioras a function of this belief. They either have difficulty recognizing the possible consequences of their "risky behaviors",or they dismiss the consequences as something that could happen - to someone else,but not to them.
1. Are there characteristics of the adolescent brain that might account for their risky behavior? ( Be sure to cite the txt as appropriate)
Explanation / Answer
answer- Personal fable is belief by the some or many adolescents that they are special or unique. there is no problem in their lifes.and also their no such problems that can affect their behaviour. In the personal fable the adolescents person thinkhimself as centre of attention. they think nothing can happen to them. It common occur from age of 11-13 in children. It is more prominent in the early adolescence (age of 11). It start decresing in late adolescence from age to 17 upto 23. Females have higher sence of Uniqueness and invulnerability than man adolescent. But boy have higher instances of feeling taking risk than girls.
and yes these are the characterstics of the adolescent brain that might account for theri risky behaviour because they have feeling of uniqueness and invulnerability that nobody could harm them so they started taking risk especially Boys. Females have higher instance of taking sexual risk they do not use any contraceptive and involved in sexual intercourse activity at younger age. their ecocentraism and feeling of uniquness leads to health endangering behaviours.they start taking drugs and alcohol at younger they dont know about the future consequence of all this. Personal feable in commonly associated with risk taking behaviour in adolescent childrens. they started their life risk place themselves in dangerous situation without any thinking behaviour brain did not allow them to think about the consequence of this. Because there in feeling in their they are special or unique so they start taking risk or place them selfes in dangerous situation.