Donna is concerned about her adolescent daughters tendency to flare up at the mildest provocations. Donna says that her daughter refuses to see reason sometimes and seems unable to exercise much self-control. As a specialist in the development of adolescents, you would tell Donna that her daughters behavior could partly be explained by the biological reason that:
A. the prefrontal cortexinvolved in reasoning and self-controlhas developed fully by early adolescence.
B. the corpus callosum, where fibers connect the brains left and right hemispheres, thickens in adolescence.
C. by the end of adolescence, individuals have fewer, less selective, less effective neuronal connections than they did as children.
D. the amygdalathe seat of emotions such as angermatures earlier than the prefrontal cortex in adolescents.
Answer:D
Donna is concerned about her adolescent daughters tendency to flare up at the mildest provocations. Donna says that her daughter refuses to see reason sometimes and seems unable to exercise much self-control. As a specialist in the development of adolescents, you would tell Donna that her daughters behavior could partly be explained by the biological reason that:
A. the prefrontal cortexinvolved in reasoning and self-controlhas developed fully by early adolescence. B. the corpus callosum, where fibers connect the brains left and right hemispheres, thickens in adolescence. C. by the end of adolescence, individuals have fewer, less selective, less effective neuronal connections than they did as children. D. the amygdalathe seat of emotions such as angermatures earlier than the prefrontal cortex in adolescents.