In One Study Described in Your Textbook (Qu Et Al

question 37

Multiple Choice

In one study described in your textbook (Qu et al., 2015) , adolescents who engaged in fewer real-life risky activities showed less activity in the prefrontal cortex during a simple impulse-inhibition task than those who engaged in more risk-taking. Given what is known about the prefrontal cortex, which of the following is the most plausible interpretation of this finding?

• A) Activation in the prefrontal cortex interferes with impulse control.
• B) Adolescents who engage in less risky behavior have weaker impulses, so controlling them is easier.
• C) People who do not take risks in real life are unused to inhibiting their impulses.
• D) All of the above are equally plausible explanations.

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