Practice question · True or false
The mismatch between an early-maturing reward system and a later-maturing control system is a normal developmental pattern, not a defect unique to badly behaved teenagers.
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- Is the mismatch observed broadly, or only in troubled individuals?
- It is documented across populations as part of normal brain maturation.
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True
Why
True. The maturational mismatch appears across populations as a normal feature of brain development, which is why adolescent risk-taking is a developmental phenomenon rather than a character flaw in particular individuals.
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