Cunningham and Colleagues (2004) Asked Participants to Make Judgments About

Cunningham and colleagues (2004) asked participants to make judgments about the valence and emotional intensity of positively and negatively valenced concepts such as murder, love, gun control, and abortion while fMRI technologies captured activation in different areas of the brain. The key conclusion drawn by Cunningham et al. was that the amygdala is:

A) central to appraisals of fear.
B) central to appraisals of valence (goodness or badness) of stimuli in one's environment.
C) responsive to the emotional intensity or salience of the stimulus.
D) responsive to the social aspects of one's environment.