A study that aims to measure the number of people in a particular city who are diagnosable with generalized anxiety disorder is an example of

LeDoux's work on the brain areas involved in emotional processes revealed that there is an independent neural path taking sensory information through the thalamus to a specific connection, which could account for why we are sometimes able to respond behaviourally to environmental stimuli before we have the chance to make a cognitive appraisal of these stimuli. This connection from the thalamus runs to the ________.

a) hypothalamus b) amygdala c) hippocampus d) cortex

Physicians often say, "When you hear hoof beats behind you, think horses, not zebras." In terms of this chapter, this idea most closely resembles

a. base rate information. b. social cognition. c. chronic accessibility. d. self-fulfilling prophecy.