Why Is It That the Brain of an Adolescent Becomes

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Multiple Choice

Why is it that the brain of an adolescent becomes capable of processing information more efficiently than the brain of a child?

• A) Because the brain has grown to its adult size by the time puberty occurs.
• B) Because synaptic pruning begins to take place in adolescence.
• C) Because not all of the cerebral lobes were "active" before puberty, but they are all working in adolescence.
• D) Because the corpus callosum, a structure which used to block messages from going between the two cerebral hemispheres, atrophies and disappears during adolescence.

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