Brain Research Has Told Us All of the Following Except

question 9

Multiple Choice

Brain research has told us all of the following except:

• A) during the early years, the brain has the greatest capacity for change.
• B) brain development hinges on a complex interplay between heredity and environment.
• C) after age six, new synapses or connections will not form in the brain.
• D) the developing brain has the ability to explode with new synapses or connections.

---

Definitions:

Moral Anxiety

A feeling of discomfort or distress that arises from the conflict between one's actions or desires and one's moral standards.

Id

Part of the psychic apparatus in Freudian psychoanalysis, representing the unconscious, instinctual part of the mind that operates based on the pleasure principle.

Superego

In Freudian psychoanalysis, represents the ethical component of personality, regulating the impulses of the id according to moral and societal norms.

Defense Mechanisms

Psychological strategies brought into play by individuals or the mind unconsciously to protect against anxiety, social sanctions, or to provide a refuge from reality.