Brain Researchers Think That the Best Reason the Brain Might

Multiple Choice

Brain researchers think that the best reason the brain might weight the present high and the future low when faced with a present-future tradeoff is that:

A) responding quickly and definitively to present rewards might have come with an evolutionary advantage.
B) people are naturally short-run thinkers.
C) the future is harder to visualize than the present.
D) people naturally think they may die in the future.