Laurentis is a three-month-old child who enjoys sucking on his thumb. According to Piaget, he probably first developed this enjoyment as a result of a(n)

___________ describes a process in which the brain reduces unnecessary neural connections.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

What did Baltes and Baltes call the capacity of adults to use their intellectual strengths to compensate for declining capacities?

compensatory thinking selective optimization with compensation maturation of compensation optimization of maturation and wisdom