Research in Which Participants' Brains Were Scanned with MRIs While

question 142

Multiple Choice

Research in which participants' brains were scanned with MRIs while doing a dissonance-producing task showed that when people encounter dissonance, the ________ areas of the brain decrease in activity, and when dissonance is resolved, the ________ areas of the brain "light up."

• A) emotion; reasoning
• B) reasoning; memory
• C) memory; emotion
• D) reasoning; emotion

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