In Which Way Is Emotional Pain (Such as Feeling Rejected)similar

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Multiple Choice

In which way is emotional pain (such as feeling rejected) similar to physical pain?​

• A)Both stimulate the same peripheral receptors.
• B)​Both activate many of the same brain areas.
• C)​We remember both equally well and equally intensely.
• D)​The only similarity is that we describe them with the same word.

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Definitions:

Inheritable Traits

Characteristics or features of an organism that can be passed from one generation to the next through genes.

Biological Ancestors

The direct lineage of organisms from which an individual has descended.

Epigenetics

The study of stable changes in the expression of a particular gene that occur without changes in DNA base sequences; the Greek prefix epi- means “on top of” or “in addition to.”

Gene Expression

The process by which information from a gene is used to synthesize a functional gene product, often a protein.