During puberty, as neurons become more responsive to excitatory neurotransmitters, adolescents: a) react more strongly to stressful events and experience pleasurable stimuli more intensely. b) have difficulty storing and retrieving long-term memories. c) cope better with stressful events and rarely experience negative emotion. d) become capable of reading and interpreting emotional cues.

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Cecilia Luna

13 October, 18:54

During puberty, as neurons become more responsive to excitatory neurotransmitters, adolescents: a) react more strongly to stressful events and experience pleasurable stimuli more intensely. b) have difficulty storing and retrieving long-term memories. c) cope better with stressful events and rarely experience negative emotion. d) become capable of reading and interpreting emotional cues.

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Khalil Douglas · Answer 1

react more strongly to stressful events and experience pleasurable stimuli more intensely

Explanation:

Neurotransmitters are the chemical that serves to transmit nerve impulses across a synapse. Neurotransmitters are stored in synaptic vesicles in the axon terminals. A postsynaptic neuron receives many excitatory and inhibitory signals. An excitatory neurotransmitter serves to produce a potential change called a signal that brings the polarity of a neuron neared to an action potential and have a depolarizing effect.

On the other hand, an inhibitory neurotransmitter leads the polarity of a neuron away from an action potential. When a neuron receives many excitatory signals the axon will transmit a nerve impulse and the response will be generated. Since neurons become more responsive to excitatory neurotransmitters during puberty, they produce a more intense response to both stressful and pleasurable conditions.