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A 6 page paper which provides and annotated bibliography and book review of David Walsh’s “Why Do They Act That Way?” and V.S. Ramachandran. No additional sources cited.
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That Way? : A Survival Guide to the Adolescent Brain for You and Your Teen. Free Press; Reprint edition. This book, as the title suggests, discusses the ways in which
teenagers think, as it involves many different levels of discussion. the book discusses the teenagers brain, as well as the development of that brain as it involves things such as
impulse behavior as well as behavior related to hormones. The authors examine how teenagers are often altred through substances as well, further illustrating how the teenagers brain should be looked
at perhaps differently than that average adult brain. The book also covers problems such as mental illness, and dealing with teenagers in our modern society as they are clearly a
product of their generation in relationship to the media and technology. It is quite a thorough book in broadly examining many realities and possibilities. In the very
beginning of the work Walsh and Bennett (2005) present an incredibly relevant quote by Socrates from the 5th century B.C.. In this quote much of the modern attitudes from adults
towards youth are summed up as Socrates notes that the youth of his day "show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise...gobble up their food and
tyrannize their teachers" (Walsh; Bennet, 2005; 1). They then indicate that adolescence is the time between childhood and adulthood and in recent years the time of childhood passes far more
quickly than in previous generations and as such adolescence is "taking longer than ever before" (Walsh; Bennet, 2005; 1). For this particular researcher/writer (a parent who has seen children through
this stage and two more yet to reach this stage) this foundation seems very relevant to youth today. The authors begin by illustrating how complex life is for the teenager
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