With respect to gray matter in the brain, the period of adolescence is best characterized by the word(s):

a. growth in number of cells
b. pruning
c. enlargement of cells
d. increase in complexity of cell connections


b

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Of the following widowed individuals, who has the lowest risk for suicide?

a. Cleo, a white female b. Shanti, an African American female c. Jefferson, an African American male d. Martin, a white male

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Transference is characterized by patients' ambivalent attitudes toward their parents

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Which of the following properties of sound would be the most similar to the color, or hue, of light?

a. pitch b. loudness c. timbre purity d. hue e. "it signals the hypothalamus to commence with eating behaviors."

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