Brain Researchers Think That the Best Reason the Brain Might

question 90

Multiple Choice

Brain researchers think that the best reason the brain might weight the present high and the future low when faced with a present-future tradeoff is that:

• A)responding quickly and definitively to present rewards might have come with an evolutionary advantage.
• B)people are naturally short-run thinkers.
• C)the future is harder to visualize than the present.
• D)people naturally think they may die in the future.
• E)a and c

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Definitions:

Motivated Forgetting

Forgetting that occurs when something is so painful or anxiety-laden that remembering it is intolerable.

Traumatic Memories

Memories of traumatic events that are so emotionally overwhelming they are often fragmented and may lead to problems like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Repressed Memories

Memories that have been unconsciously blocked due to being associated with a high level of stress or trauma.

Proactive Interference

A phenomenon where older information learned previously interferes with the recall of newer information.