Sixteen-year-old Donna is experimenting with smoking and drinking and often argues with her parents. From an evolutionary standpoint, why is it developmentally logical for Donna to start adolescence with risk-taking tendencies?
It is developmentally logical for Donna to start adolescence with the risk-taking tendencies so that she’s pushed to leave home and go out into the world to see how the world is outside her world of comfort and imaginations.
Explanation:
To make Donna realize her responsibilities as a young girl, it is necessary to encourage her to develop the tendency of risk-taking.
It would be only through taking risks, that Donna would choose to leave her comfort zone and step into the real world of materialistic reality.
The realization would also help her stop experimenting with things that can lead her to hazardous addictions.
