Recent research suggests that adolescents may be prone to engage in risky behaviors such as reckless driving and unprotected sex because the ____ area of the brain is not fully developed until late adolescence or early adulthood.

a. hypothalamus
b. prefrontal cortex
c. occipital cortex
d. medulla

Ans: b. prefrontal cortex

Psychology

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