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nramada

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When presented with the moral dilemma of whether to physically push Person A onto a trolley track to stop a trolley car from killing 5 other people,
 
  individuals with damage to the ____________ will choose to push Person A and stop the trolley, demonstrating no moral dilemma with this choice.
 
  a. ventromedial prefrontal cortex
  b. amygdala
  c. subgenual anterior cingulate cortex
  d. orbitofrontal cortex
  e. prefrontal cortex

Question 2

Individuals with lesions to the vmPFC are
 
  a. less likely to feel strong emotional responses in moral judgments.
  b. more likely to feel strong emotional responses in moral judgments.
  c. less likely to pick sacrificing one person to save five.
  d. more likely to find personally killing one individual to save five morally reprehensible.
  e. less likely to partake in moral judgments at all.



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: a. ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Answer to Question 2

Answer: a. less likely to feel strong emotional responses in moral judgments.




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Reply 2 on: Jun 22, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Excellent

 

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