_____ involves thinking about pleasant thoughts while being exposed to fear evoking events

Most of our time awake is spent in a state called _____, in which our thoughts, feelings, and sensations are clear and organized, and we feel alert.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

A study of children who had spent their first eight months or more in Romanian institutions and were then adopted into Canadian homes found that the longer the children spent in orphanage care, the __________ their __________

A) higher; cortisol levels B) lower; cortisol levels C) greater; anger control D) greater; impulse control