Practice question · True or false
A patient with amygdala damage who can explain that a snake is dangerous but shows no fear response demonstrates that knowing and responding are separate systems.
Hints
- Which system is damaged?
- Declarative knowledge is intact; the response is not.
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True
Why
True. Declarative knowledge of danger is intact while the rapid affective response is gone, so the two are dissociable. It is the strongest kind of evidence for separate systems, and it explains why insight into a phobia so rarely dissolves it.
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