What Group of Adolescents Is Most Likely to Persist in Violence

question 127

Multiple Choice

What group of adolescents is most likely to persist in violence?

• A) Boys and girls who are living in single-parent homes
• B) Boys who had early antisocial influences
• C) Girls who had early antisocial influences
• D) Girls who are withdrawn

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Definitions:

Action Potentials

Quick, electrical impulses that travel down a neuron's axon, allowing neurons to communicate with each other.

Synaptic Interval

The gap between neurons across which neurotransmitters travel to transmit signals from one neuron to the next.

Synaptic Vesicles

Small organelles within neurons that store neurotransmitters, which are released into the synaptic cleft during neuronal communication.

Postsynaptic Cell

The neuron or cell that receives a signal (neurotransmitter) from another neuron at a synapse during the process of communication between neurons.