Research in which participants' brains were scanned with MRIs while doing a dissonance-producing task showed that when people encounter dissonance,
the ________ areas of the brain decrease in activity, and when dissonance is resolved, the ________ areas of the brain "light up."
a. emotion; reasoning
b. reasoning; memory
c. memory; emotion
d. reasoning; emotion
Answer: D
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