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How do adolescents typically weigh the risk and benefits of real-life health-risk behaviors?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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In laboratory settings, how well do adolescents, compared to adults, perform on tasks in which they must judge the riskiness of two scenarios presented to them?
 
  What will be an ideal response?



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: When weighing the risk and benefits of real-life health-risk behaviors, adolescents typically focus more on the benefits than the risks of health-risk behaviors.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: Adolescents generally perform as well as adults in judging which of two actions is riskier.



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