Increase in brain weight during the preschool years is due
a. primarily to the thickening of the skull.
b. in large part to increasing myelination of nerve fibers.
c. primarily to increases in the size of the cerebellum.
d. to increases in the size of the muscles that support the skull.
b
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Prenatal events, such as the mother's stress or near starvation,
A. increase the likelihood a child will later develop schizophrenia and depression. B. increase the likelihood that the mother will later develop schizophrenia or depression. C. increase the likelihood that a child will later develop schizophrenia but decrease the likelihood that the child will develop depression. D. have no measurable impact on the child's risk for developing depression.
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