Pearline Is Participating in a Psychology Experiment Where She Has

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Pearline is participating in a psychology experiment where she has to complete a mental rotation task while having her brain scanned in an fMRI. She hears how other participants are responding to the perceptual questions being asked. Even though she felt that her first answer was wrong, she went along with what the group was saying. However, for her second answer she went against the group. The brain scan indicated that

• A) there were no differences in the regions that were activated in the brain between the conforming and non-conforming responses.
• B) brain areas associated with conscious decision-making were active for both judgments.
• C) regions dedicated to emotion were activated for the first response, and those associated with perception were activated for the second response.
• D) regions dedicated to perception were activated for the first response, and those associated with emotion were activated for the second response.

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