You Have Just Joined a Psychology Lab and Are Working

question 502

Multiple Choice

You have just joined a psychology lab and are working with a group of researchers who are interested in how the brain responds to different kinds of facial expressions (e.g. happy, scared, angry, etc,.) . They ask you if you have any ideas for experiments. You suggest testing what happens when you temporarily disrupt a specific part of the brain involved with facial processing (the fusiform face area) when students are making judgments about face stimuli. What method would be appropriate to test that hypothesis?

• A)a computerized axial tomography (CT) scan
• B)transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
• C)A functional MRI (fMRI)
• D)None of these method would be appropriate to test that hypothesis.
• E)ERP (event-related potentials)

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