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Final Psyc260
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Psychology
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12/11/2004

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Testosterone that directly activates intermale agression by stimulating the androgen-sensitive neurons are presumably located where?
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medial preoptic area (MPA)
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who suggested that human expressions of emotion have evolved from similar expressions in other animals?
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Charles Darwin
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_______ said that _______ expressions are innate, unlearned responses consisting of a complex set of movements, principally of the facial muscles.
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Charles Darwin, emotional
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_______ obtained evidence for his conclusion that _______ _______ were innate by observing his own children and by corresponding with eople living in various isolated cultures around the world.
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Charles Darwin, emotional expressions
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facial expression of emotions and innate responses are suggested by who?
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charles darwin
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who found that people in different cultures used the same patterns of movement of facial muscles to express a particular emotional state?
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Darwin
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this treatment that increases anxiety is a drug that activates the GABAA receptor is within what area?
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central nucleus of the amygdala
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who says facial expressions are inherited and not learned?
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darwin!
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who says physiological responses to a stimulus precede a feeling of emotion?
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James & Lange!
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this disorder afflicts men and women in approximately equal numbers.
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bipolar disorder!
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this disorder has episodes of mania that can last a few days or several months, but they usually take a few weeks to run their course
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bipolar disorder!
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this disorder has episodes of depression that follow generally last three times as long as the mania.
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bipolar depression.
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what is mania?
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extreme elation
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alternating periods of mania and depression is a condition called?
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bipolar disorder!
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monoamine oxidase (MAO)
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inhibitors, drugs that inhibit thereuptake of norepinephrine or serotonin,
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electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), and sleep deprivation are what?
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effective biological treatments for unipolar depression.
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lithium and some anticonvulsant drugs are effective treatments for what?
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bipolar disorder!
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a serious mood disorder characterized by cyclical periods of mania and depression is
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bipolar disorder.
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very little energy, slow movement and talking, torpid, pacing around restlessly and aimlessly, crying, inability to experience pleasure, loss of appetite for food and sex, disturbed sleep, constapation, and decrease saliva secretions are signs of
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depression
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