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Do human emotions inherently lack wisdom and direction without cognitive guidance?

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  1. 1.Bloc 1 - Foundational ConceptEasy· Ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC)

    Patients with lesions in which specific brain region make catastrophic real-world decisions despite having intact somatic signaling, demonstrating that raw emotion requires cognitive calibration?

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  2. 2.Bloc 1 - Foundational ConceptEasy· Anticipatory Skin Conductance Response

    In the Iowa Gambling Task, which physiological metric guides healthy adults toward advantageous decks before they can consciously articulate their strategy?

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  3. 3.Bloc 1 - Foundational ConceptEasy· Amygdala

    Which subcortical circuit is primarily responsible for encoding immediate emotional salience but cannot evaluate long-term consequences without prefrontal integration?

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  4. 4.Bloc 2 - Academic TheoryMedium· Somatic Marker Hypothesis (Damasio 1994)

    Under the Somatic Marker Hypothesis (Damasio 1994), which specific environmental condition causes the decision-making framework to break down due to an absence of prior associative learning?

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  5. 5.Bloc 2 - Academic TheoryMedium· Dual-Process Theory of Moral Judgment (Greene 2001)

    According to the Dual-Process Theory of Moral Judgment (Greene 2001), how does extreme stress alter the decision function's weighting between the deontological and utilitarian systems?

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  6. 6.Bloc 2 - Academic TheoryMedium· Model-Free vs. Model-Based Reinforcement Learning (Daw, Niv, & Dayan 2005)

    In Model-Free vs. Model-Based Reinforcement Learning (Daw, Niv, & Dayan 2005), which system relies on caching values based strictly on past reward history rather than forward-looking transition matrices?

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  7. 7.Bloc 3 - Contextual ApplicationHard· Speculative economic bubbles

    During speculative economic bubbles, if market volatility is primarily driven by immediate emotional responses rather than rational analysis, which neural metric would most likely spike among retail traders?

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  8. 8.Bloc 3 - Contextual ApplicationHard· Dark patterns in consumer protection

    When regulators analyze digital dark patterns, exploiting a user's immediate emotional prepotency over slow deliberative cognition directly weaponizes the core assumptions of which neuroeconomic framework?

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  9. 9.Bloc 4 - Expert SynthesisExpert· Social Intuitionist Model (Haidt 2001) vs Dual-Process Theory of Moral Judgment (Greene 2001)

    Regarding the role of conscious reasoning in moral choices, how does the Social Intuitionist Model (Haidt 2001) fundamentally diverge from the Dual-Process Theory of Moral Judgment (Greene 2001)?

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  10. 10.Bloc 4 - Expert SynthesisExpert· Somatic Marker Hypothesis (Damasio 1994) vs Model-Free vs. Model-Based Reinforcement Learning (Daw, Niv, & Dayan 2005)

    While both frameworks evaluate expected future values, how do the Somatic Marker Hypothesis (Damasio 1994) and Model-Free vs. Model-Based Reinforcement Learning (Daw, Niv, & Dayan 2005) differ regarding physiological arousal?

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