The capacity of a brain area to develop new neural pathways as it adjusts to good and bad experiences is known as
A) phrenology.
B) dendrites.
C) an action potential.
D) plasticity.

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The capacity of a brain area to develop new neural pathways as it adjusts to good and bad experiences is known as plasticity. The other choices are not relevant to this concept. Phrenology is the now discredited idea that specific areas of the brain are responsible for specific personality traits or characteristics. Dendrites are the branch-like structures on neurons that receive signals from other neurons. An action potential is a brief electrical impulse that travels down the axon of a neuron.

The Capacity of a Brain Area to Develop New Neural