Adolescents Who Engage in High-Risk Behavior More Often Show Less

question 11

True/False

Adolescents who engage in high-risk behavior more often show less activation of the parts of the prefrontal cortex that are associated with decision making.

---

Definitions:

Egocentric

The inability to differentiate between one's own perspective and someone else's perspective, common in early childhood development.

Intuitive

Ability to understand or know something immediately based on instinct rather than conscious reasoning.

Conservation

The cognitive ability to understand that certain properties of objects, such as volume or mass, remain the same even when their outward appearance changes.

Object Permanence

The understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be seen, heard, or touched, which develops in infancy.