Question

When babies engage in physical activity or use language, some synaptic connections will be strengthened, while the unused ones are replaced by other pathways or disappear. A neuroscientist would identify this process as:______.
a) pruning.
b) myelination.
c) paring.
d) trimming.

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answer is a) pruning

Explanation:

Pruning is a process which occurs in children between 3-16 year of age in which some unnecessary connection in brains weed out important connection are strengthened on the basis of child experience.

Pruning can start very early stage during development but the rapid pruning occurs between 3 to 16 years. In different sensitive periods different areas of brain undergoes in pruning. Pruning plays an important role in the development of the brain. Therefore the correct answer is a.