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Since 1960, under the influence of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive neuroscience, our awareness of ourselves and our environment—our consciousness—has reclaimed its place as an important area of research. After initially claiming consciousness as its area of study in the nineteenth century, psychologists had abandoned it in the first half of the twentieth century, turning instead to the study of observable behavior because they believed consciousness was too difficult to study scientifically. A few examples of when someones body goes in auto pilot could be of the following; negative thoughts about yourself that keep popping up, undesirable habits such as nail biting, sitting on social media too often, and always experiencing certain negative feelings.
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D. desire to surprise his friend and his friend’s failure to recognize him
Explanation:
Answer D
Correct. In these sentences, the author presents a humorous reversal that emerges from the ironic incongruity between the traveler’s plan to “overpower” his old friend with an excess of pleasure and the anticlimactic outcome of the surprise visit. As it turns out, the friend experiences no immediate pleasure from the visit because he fails to recognize the traveler and can only be made to remember him after the traveler gives a “gradual (in this context, methodical) explanation” of who he is.
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In the midst of the battles for independence, Bolívar summoned a congress in the city of Angostura to reassert New Granada's autonomy and to install a political system that he believed would be capable of sustaining a new republic.
