Question

What is the author's purpose for writing the article, "What Teenage Brains Can Teach Us About Thinking Creatively?"

A. To illustrate that adolescents have contributed more to society than the get credit for.
B. To explain how many past beliefs about teen neurology have been disproven.
C. To explain how neurology can help adults teach, relate to, and learn better from teens.
D. To illustrate that many common adolescent behaviors are complex, and not well understood.

Answer 1

C. To explain how neurology can help adults teach, relate to, and learn better from teens.

Step-by-step explanation:

From the article, the writer is trying to show how teens have been undervalued for their creative nature because their more impulsive side is always talked about.

The writer eulogies teens for their pull in the social media space, their ability to learn a second language, join political movements, etc but believes that this side of them is mostly overlooked because of their impulsiveness nature that comes as a result of their age.

The writer is of the opinion that adults can understand teens better and learn from them.

The writer is of the opinion that this impulsive nature of teens coupled with their creativity will mould them into better adults.