In Some Experiments on the Pain of Being Rejected, Participants

question 12

Multiple Choice

In some experiments on the pain of being rejected, participants played a ball-tossing game while their brains were being scanned in an fMRI. Those excluded during the game showed increased activity in the ___________ areas of the brain involved in the experience of pain.

• A) occipital lobes and the temporal lobes
• B) cerebellum and pons
• C) motor and sensory mirror cell
• D) dorsal anterior cingulate cortex and right anterior insula

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