The Improved Judgment and Impulse Control That Occur as Adolescents

question 12

Multiple Choice

The improved judgment and impulse control that occur as adolescents grow older is made possible by the development of

• A) primary sex characteristics.
• B) secondary sex characteristics.
• C) the frontal lobes.
• D) the limbic system.

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