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Inferring Main ideas Directions: Read each paragraph. Then select the letter of the main idea implied in the paragraph.
Everyone knows stress has a negative effect on the body. It weakens the immune system and increases the chances of infection and disease. However, an experiment by two scientists at Rockefeller University in New York challenges that traditional wisdom. According to Firdaus S.Dhabhar and Dr.Bruce McEwen, mild forms of stress can act like a call to arms. If, for example, a person has to give a speech or meet a deadline, the body calls up immune cells from the bloodstream and sends them to battle stations throughout the body, thereby increasing rather than diminishing immunity. It may be that the immune system is weakened only when stress is long-term, severe and out of one's control. Mild stress might have an entirely different effect on the body.
Implied Main Idea

Definitions:

Amygdala

A small, almond-shaped structure in the brain involved in emotion regulation, especially fear and the encoding of memories of emotional events.

Long-Term Memories

Memories stored with an unlimited capacity that can last from a few days to a lifetime, including both declarative (explicit) memories, such as facts and events, and non-declarative (implicit) memories, such as skills and conditioned responses.

Eyewitness Memory

The recall and recognition capabilities of individuals who have observed specific incidents, particularly used in the context of legal evidence.

Leading Questions

A type of question that implies or contains its own answer, often guiding the respondent towards a desired response.