Explain how amygdala patients respond to gambling behaviors and what implications this may have for their daily living.
What will be an ideal response?
Amygdala patients also didn't respond to monetary gains and losses. Apparently the ventromedial patients were unable to make use of emotional information from the amygdala, but the amygdala patients couldn't even generate an emotional response to rewards and punishments. As a result, patients with bilateral amygdala damage often live in supervised care, because their actions can easily bring harm to themselves and others.
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"Good Samaritan" laws
a. encourage bystanders to intervene in emergencies. b. only apply to those with professional training. c. are fairly rare in the United States. d. require people to intervene in the case of an emergency, even if doing so is dangerous for the helper.
Pavlov was convinced that:
a. the conditioned stimulus acted as a kind of substitute for the unconditioned stimulus b. conditioning involved actively learning one event signaled another c. the cognitive view of conditioning was the correct view d. blocking was proof conditioning could be undone
Studies of scientific inquiry find that continued exposure to challenging science problems tends to promote _____
a. a variety of skills and knowledge related to coordinating theory with evidence b. acquisition of scientific knowledge only after students are in mid-adolescence c. thinking outside the box d. narrow knowledge of the specific problems as opposed to broader knowledge of how to carry out scientific inquiry
In Piaget's pendulum task, the solution that reveals whether not an individual is in the formal operations stage is ____
a. the length of the string b. the height from which the weight is dropped c. the force with which it is dropped d. the weight of the pendulum