A Researcher Decides to Expose Rats to a Stressful Environment

A researcher decides to expose rats to a stressful environment.Rats are exposed to shock.Some rats (the executive rats) can turn the shock off by making a decision to press the correct lever based on different warning sounds.Other rats (the worker rats) were exposed to the same warning sounds and the same shock but were NOT given the chance to make decisions about which levers to press.Based on what you know about cognitive responses to stress,you would expect the "executive rat" to have ___ health problems and the "worker rat" to have ___ health problems.

A) more; fewer
B) fewer; more
C) both rats to have the same health problems
D) There is no way to predict the outcome of this study.

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