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In one study described in your textbook (Qu et al., 2015) , adolescents who engaged in fewer real-life risky activities showed less activity in the prefrontal cortex during a simple impulse-inhibition task than those who engaged in more risk-taking. Given what is known about the prefrontal cortex, which of the following is the most plausible interpretation of this finding?


A) Activation in the prefrontal cortex interferes with impulse control.
B) Adolescents who engage in less risky behavior have weaker impulses, so controlling them is easier.
C) People who do not take risks in real life are unused to inhibiting their impulses.
D) All of the above are equally plausible explanations.

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