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Under conditions where an adolescent is not overly aroused or pressured, ____ year-olds can reason just as well as adults.

It’s not until age ____ that teens can reliably control their impulses when faced with peer pressure, and resist temptation to take risks because of the attraction of a tempting reward.

Adolescents are not as good at regulating impulses and making sound judgments when they are ____.

Elementary school students in the U.S. probably achieve at higher levels than high school students because the younger students are less likely to be distracted by all of the following except

How do students in the U.S. compare, on academic participation and belongingness, to students in other countries?

How are adolescents different than adults regarding responsiveness to rewards and sensitivity to loss?

So what’s wrong with the advertising campaigns used to prevent things like unprotected sex, drug use, and reckless driving among teens? Educational programs change

Steinberg tells the story of trying to pick the right graduate students, to know who will succeed. He concludes the best graduate students are the ones

In fact, the recklessness-enhancing effect of being around peers is strongest when adolescents know

How are poor kids exposed to more artificial light than others?