Child Psych

Category - Development & Neuro

At what point in a person’s life is the number of synaptic connections in the brain greatest?
  1. Prenatal stage
  2. Infancy
  3. Childhood
  4. Adulthood
Explanation
Answer: B - The point in a person’s life when the number of synaptic connections in the brain is greatest is in infancy. That is the time when the development of synapses takes place at an incredible rate. But, since many of these extra synapses are neither used nor needed, they are later eliminated or, to use the neurobiological term, “pruned.”
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