Mary and John are teaming up to make an important sales presentation to 15 executives from a Fortune 500 company. Mary finds the challenge exhilarating, but John is a nervous wreck over the presentation. Their differing reactions illustrate which of your text's unifying themes?
a. Psychology is empirical.
b. Our experience of the world is highly subjective.
c. Psychology is theoretically diverse.
d. Behavior is determined by multiple causes.
B
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In a research study on cognitive dissonance (van Veen, Krug, Schooler & Carter, 2009), one group of participants undergoing functional MRI was asked to describe the somewhat unpleasant scanner experience as pleasant. The other group was asked to describe it as neutral. Which part(s) of the brain showed higher levels of activity in the participants who made dissonant statements, as compared to
those who made neutral statements? a. ?amygdala b. ?prefrontal cortex c. ?anterior cingulate cortex and insula d. ?cerebellum and pons