What is the current view of the role of the amygdala?
a) Most emotions bypass the amygdala to speed processing.
b) The amygdala seems involved in several emotions, although different portions may be involved with different emotions.
c) The amygdala is involved in about half of the emotions we experience; the other half are processed in the pons and cerebellum.
d) Neural messages related to emotion are processed simultaneously in several parts of the brain, with the amygdala serving as a switchboard to forward the message to the appropriate brain structure.
B
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Psychologists have studied how deaf individuals perform on mental rotation tasks when they are fluent in American Sign Language. The research shows that these individuals:
a. make more errors than people who use spoken communication. b. make fewer errors than other people, because they are accustomed to viewing a scene from a different perspective. c. make fewer errors than other people, because they are not distracted by various sounds in the surrounding area. d. make the same number of errors as other people.
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What will be an ideal response?
Longitudinal research on the after-effects of divorce suggests that
a. most children eventually come to view the event as a positive in their life. b. most children never get over the trauma of the experience in their life. c. most children still view it negatively 20 years later, although they are well adjusted. d. most children view it positively 20 years later and are bascially well adjusted.