What is the connotative meaning of this line from Kurt Vonnegut's "Report on the Barnhouse Effect"? General Barker bustled about the house like a woman preparing Thanksgiving dinner for twenty.

General Barker was in a hurry to get everything ready for the experiment.

Explanation:

A woman preparing Thanksgiving dinner for twenty has lots of dishes to make and has a challenging work on her hand and lots of work to do. Typically, this woman will be in a hurry to get things done and get everything ready in time.

The same thing applies to General Barker. He was in a hurry and rushing as he wanted to get everything set and ready for the experiment that he had.

the support that the author, uses in the article facing our fears is a): a definition of the part of the brain called the amygdala.

he takes neuroscientist joseph ledoux's words by telling that by falling to distinguish between evolutionary old systems located in the amygdala and newer systems, centered in the prefrontal cortex, doctors have conflated non conscious threat circuits in the brain with circuits that underlie the conscious experience of fear. that, the author says, "leads ledoux to the jarring conclusion that the amygdala, a decades-old centerpiece of the brain's fear circuit, does not underlie the conscious feeling of fear".

despite this, the author points out in the article that that is a controversial notion and that evidence, in animal and humans, supports the idea that core emotions can exist outside of conscious awareness.