Answer to Question #188672 in Psychology for khutji

Question

The personality of a person influences their decision making.

B Adolescents' attitudes play a part in the choices they make. 

Answer 1

Personality and Decision Making

 Personality plays a significant role in the decision making process. There are people with indecisive personality who hardly make decision. People with such personality take too long to make decisions, but once they make a decision, they remain very loyal to it.  On the other and, here is a group of people with impulsive personality. Such people rush in decisions making and mostly end up making decision without considering the possible consequences of such decisions.

 Adolescence and Decision Making

 The major adjustments and remodeling of the human brain happens during adolescents. During adolescence, the human brain undergoes remodeling in which the unused connections are pruned off while the useful connections are strengthened. The remodeling process begins at amygdala, the back part of the brain towards the prefrontal cortex, the front part of the brain, which is used for thinking, planning, and decision making.  Since the prefrontal cortex is remodeled last at the mid-twenties of an individual, human beings often use amygdala for thinking and decision making during teenage. The amygdala which is used to reason during adolescence is associated with impulses, emotions, aggressiveness, and instinctive behavior this explaining the nature of teenagers decision making and behaviors during adolescence.