Chunk #4 — Theories of Reward-Driven Behavior in Adolescence

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Adolescent development of the reward system.

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on this latter theory; that is, that adolescents are, in part, motivated to engage in high reward behaviors because of developmental changes in the striatum that confer hypersensitivity to reward (e.g., Ernst et al., 2009). However, data in support of the hypo-responsiveness hypothesis are reviewed as well.