The text suggests that the legal system holds adolescents less responsible for their actions than it does adults because the adolescent brain is different than an adult’s. As compared to adult brains, adolescent brains are deficient in ______ because the ______ has yet to mature.
a. emotional processing; limbic system
b. emotional processing; prefrontal cortex
c. executive control; limbic system
d. executive control; prefrontal cortex
Ans: D
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