Decision-Making: Emotion vs. Reason

1.) The role of myelin in the frontal lobe and decision-making is that since the frontal lobe isn't fully connected yet and doesn't have much myelin, which basically acts as insulation for the nerves, it is less capable of making good decisions. Adults have fully developed frontal lobes and more myelin, thus their brain signals can flow more freely than that have teenagers.

2.) The role of the cerebellum in decision-making is to coordinate the thinking process and to smooth over the thoughts resulting from life experiences in an organized matter. The cerebellum doesn't fully develop until the late 20s, so it is certainly not completely developed in a teenager, and thus the adolescent thinking process is less organized, leading to worse decisions.

3.) The role of socialization in the moral development of children is to shape their possibly already existing moral codes so that they adhere to the norms. The implications of socialization on the possibility of a universal moral code are that if our morality can be molded from that start, we can aspire as a race to achieving a universal moral code where we can all understand each other and be truly unselfish through cultural experiences.

4.) When I'm making a decision, I try to consider all of the pros and cons of that decision, and the results of it if I take action. In doing so, I  weigh the benefits of that decision against the costs, and can determine if it is a good decision to take action on or not. For example, I'm looking at colleges right now as a junior in high school, and when I'm narrowing colleges down it's a matter of weighing the good against the bad. Eventually, I'm going to have to make that big decision and choose my college, and to do that I'll have to determine whether or not the benefits of that college will outweigh the costs by just trying to predict all the possible outcomes. I'd say that being able to make good, smart decisions,   is extremely important and definitely matters. The decisions I make now determine my future, so it's worrisome that my brain isn't as capable of making them according to the neurological studies.