According to the Discrete Emotions Theory,emotional Expressions Are Recognizable Across

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Multiple Choice

According to the discrete emotions theory,emotional expressions are recognizable across cultures because

• A)teaching children about emotional expression is important for survival in all cultures.
• B)each emotion is associated with a distinct "motor program" that reflects genetically influenced physiological responses that are essentially the same in all people.
• C)during colonization,missionaries all over the world were teaching children about life and love,and also taught about how to express and recognize emotions in other people.
• D)the limbic system responds to emotion-provoking stimuli in the same way,and emotions are indistinguishable from a physiological stand-point (i.e. ,they all have the same patterns of activation).

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