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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Should animals be used in psychological and medical research? If you were going to be consistent with your text author's points, you would answer "yes" because
a. animals are less expensive to care for and to monitor. b. animal research has led to important breakthroughs in several areas of science. c. historically, the psychological and medical sciences have relied on animals as research participants. d. although animal research does not benefit animals directly, the animals benefit indirectly by being cared for.