Fiona is the director of an outdoor wilderness expedition camp for teenagers (aged 13–17). She is concerned by their frequent disregard for safety regulations, such as unclipping safety harnesses on high-ropes courses to perform 'dares' or taking unauthorized, dangerous shortcuts during group orienteering challenges.
Discuss how a psychologist could use knowledge of pre-adult brain development to explain these behaviours to Fiona, and outline how she might adapt her camp's protocols and activities to reduce these high-risk actions.
4 exam-style questions on OCR A Level Psychology Pre-adult brain development (Biological). Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.