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DyllonKazuo

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Which one of the following best describes the growth of neurons during the prenatal period?
 
  a. An overabundance of neurons emerges early in prenatal development, but about half of the neurons die before birth.
  b. Neurons continue to be generated at a rapid rate throughout the last six months of the prenatal period.
  c. Neurons begin to develop in the fifth month of pregnancy, and they proliferate rapidly during the third trimester.
  d. Neurons that will support basic physiological functioning appear in the first two months after conception; those that will be responsible for higher-level thinking processes don't appear until two or three months before birth.

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Which one of the following best exemplifies experience-dependent plasticity?
 
  a. Hearing subtle differences in similar-sounding words
  b. Learning how to pronounce words like a native speaker
  c. Learning syntactical structures of one's native language
  d. Learning how to read


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catron30

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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

a

Answer to Question 2

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DyllonKazuo

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Reply #2 on: Jun 20, 2018
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