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| Emotions have 4 different aspects... |
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- feelings
- actions
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- motivation
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Popularly known as a lie detector. A device that measures several bodily responses, such as heart rate and blood pressure.
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| A disorder usually caused by viral infection, in which the facial nerve on one side stops conducting action potential, resulting in paralysis on one side of the face |
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| A field devoted to asking how natural selection has shaped behavior in humans and other animals |
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| Individual Response Stereotypy |
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| The tendency of individuals to show the same response pattern to particular situations throughout their life span |
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| The process in which animals will work to provide electrical stimulation to particular brain sites, presumable because the experience is very rewarding |
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| A collection of axons traveling in the midline region of the forebrain |
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| Also called sham rage. Sudden intense rage characterized by actions (such as snarling and biting in dogs) that lack clear direction |
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| A group of brain regions within the limbic system |
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| Loosely defined, widespread group of brain nuclei that inerrvate each other to form a network. These nuclei are implicated in emotions. |
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| A condition, brought about by bilateral amygdala damage, that is characterized by dramatic emotional changed including reduction in fear and anxiety. |
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| A group of nuclei in the medial anterior part of the temporal lobe |
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| Aggression between males of the same species |
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| Emotional Dyscontrol Syndrome |
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| A condition consisting of temporal lobe disorders that may underlie some forms of human violence. |
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| An individual incapable of experiencing remorse |
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| Any circumstance that upsets homeostatic balance |
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| The initial reponse to stress |
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| The second stage in the stress response including successful activation of the appropriate response systems and the reestablishment of homeostatic balance. |
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| A stage i the repsonse to stress that is caused by prolonged or frequently repeated stress and is characterized by increased susceptibility to disease |
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| The concept that mild stress early in life makes an individual better able to handle stress later in life |
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| A field of study that emphasized the role of psychological factors in disease |
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| Also called behavioral medicine. A field that studies psychological influences on health-related processes, such as why people become ill or how they remain healthy |
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| The study of the immune system and its interaction with the nervous system and behavior. |
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| An immune system cell that engulfs invading molecules or microfibers |
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| Also called B cell. An immune system cell, formed in the bone marrow (hence the B), that mediates humoral immunity |
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| Also called immunoglobulin. A large protein that recognizes and permanently binds to particular shapes, normaly as part of the immune system attack on foreign particles. |
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| Also called T cell. An immune system cell, formed in the thymus (hence the T), that attacks foreign microbes or tissue, "killer cell". |
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| A protein thatinduces that proliferation of other cells, as in the immune system |
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