A neuroscientist finds that, as compared with civilian college students, veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan show higher activation in a certain brain area when they are shown intense, emotional pictures. This brain area is MOST likely the:

a) Hippocampus
b) amygdala
c) Hypothalmus
d) thalmus

Ans: b) amygdala

Psychology

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a.) 1973. b.) 1984. c.) 2004. d.) 2008.

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In contrast to Ellis's view, Beck's view of psychological problems focuses more on

a. the critical events in a person's life. b. family background. c. faulty logic. d. unconscious motive and desires. e. faulty beliefs.

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