TEENAGE YEARS ARE THE COMPLEX YEARS
If
there is one thing society expects teenagers to do, it is to develop their
mental skills. We human cherish our advanced thought processes for good reason:
we have created a world in which our success is often determined not by crude
physical effort, but by our ability to solve intellectual practical and social
problems. Considering how much importance we attach to higher mental function
in teenagers, teenagers think differently from children; and teenagers body
mature faster than their brains.
Defining intelligence
is almost impossible .Many people’s intelligence lies in their ability to
analyse themselves, capitalize on their strengths, remedy their weakness and
interact with others. This has led to more general theories of intelligence,
emphasizing things such as ability to succeed in ones social context or in one’s
own opinion. And for us too, it might be best to take a very flexible approach
to intelligence in teenagers. For sake of argument intelligence is the end
product of cognition- our mental ability to approach and solve problems, but
teenagers do start to tackle many mental tasks that children’s simply cannot attempt.
They can create and manipulate abstract concepts, cope with shades OF grey in arguments,
generate novel argument based on initial assumption, approach task methodically
and set themselves distant goal. They also do powerful feat of analysing their own thought
processes-generating their own ideals, criticising and improving their own
thinking and analysing their own worth, they develop strong social dimension to
their thinking, analyse relationship verbally articulate all their new thoughts
to others and metalize-create mental models about how other people think .
we do not become fully mentally human until we are
teenagers because powers of self-analysis
and metallization develop during adolescence, it is tempting to suggest that
they are characteristics which humans could evolve only once we had evolved teenagers, several thousand
years ago . Self analysis and metallization can come to obsess teenagers to a
point at which they can no longer function in society, the teenagers develop
many of their cognitive abilities like the ability to ignore irrelevant
information and process salient data reaches adult-like levels early in the
teenage years; but not until nineteen or so do we fully develop our ability to
hold many competing , interacting concepts
in our mind once, also the speed at which we can interpret the emotions
expressed in the human face is actually lower in the early teens than in either
children’s or adults.
Teenagers become fluent in the ‘formal operations’ of
physical entities before they can do the same for analysing social relationships,
raising the fascinating possibility that scientists may become intellectually mature
before artists do. Establishing cognition is important, establishing goals and
the satisfaction of achieving them are very important in human cognition and
more important is the ability to change tack: once a goal is set, we retain the
ability to set it aside temporarily and work towards other goals if necessary. For
example, injury of the prefrontal cortex can lead to a tendency to persevere
excessively with tasks, when sensible things do is to disengage and concentrate on something
else for a while .teenagers learns to separate wanted and unwanted ideas and
focus on their work. It seems teenagers mind are often more creatively free
than adults and this may explain their creative leaps in fields as diverse as
mathematics and popular music’s.
The teenage years are time of beautiful mental experiments,
when many of us decide who we are and where we are going. And working memory
which allows teenagers to achieve this. An important feature of teenage
language is the ability to linguistically manipulate other people, and the new
found ability to metalize means that this manipulation is often mutual and consensual.
Teenagers starts to gossip and tease and they soon learn the difference between
doing these things with affection and with malice. Humor and manipulation become
teenagers favorite way of getting inside other peoples head –testing the
boundaries of what others peoples will or will not accept. and of course
flirting is the most delightfully elaborate form of teenage communication one
is which all the post –childhoods skills are brought to bear- humor, teasing,
tone, style astounding feats of circumlocution. Another striking adolescent
linguistic change relates to the way that teenagers start to communicate less
with their families and more with their peers. They develop novel form of
communication for different social situations. The most important of these is
the language they use in social group with other teenagers –like slang, idioms,
in –joke and codes. So teenagers are not learning language, but they are
learning how to use it. Human language is complex-as complex as the human brain
can comprehend-and adolescence is where that complexity starts, one effect of
this is that abnormalities of language such as dyslexia starts to become more apparent
in teenagers , even if they were ‘ hidden’ during childhood. Thus we can
conclude that teenage years goes through very complex stage which can bring complexity
in both physical , mental and emotional condition of a person thus it is the
stage when we should not become too hyper when this changes are taking place
instead we should keep ourselves calm and let these changes happen and take it
i a positive way and take necessary
steps to bring improvement in us in next stage .
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