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Behavioral Neuroscience: Chapter 15
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Psychology
Undergraduate 4
04/30/2013

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Emotions have 4 different aspects...
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  1. feelings
  2. actions
  3. physiological arousal
  4. motivation
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Polygraph
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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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Bell's palsy
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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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Evolutionary Psychology
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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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Brain Self Stimulation
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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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Medial Forebrain Bundle
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A collection of axons traveling in the midline region of the forebrain
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Decorticate rage
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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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Papez Circuit
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A group of brain regions within the limbic system
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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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Kluver-Bucy Syndrome
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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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Amygdala
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A group of nuclei in the medial anterior part of the temporal lobe
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Intermale Aggression
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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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Psychopath
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An individual incapable of experiencing remorse
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Stress
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Any circumstance that upsets homeostatic balance
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Alarm Reaction
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The initial reponse to stress
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Adaptation Stage
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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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Echaustion Stage
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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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Stress Immunization
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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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Psychosomatic Medicine
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A field of study that emphasized the role of psychological factors in disease
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Health Psychology
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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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Psychoneuroimmunology
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The study of the immune system and its interaction with the nervous system and behavior.
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Phagocyte
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An immune system cell that engulfs invading molecules or microfibers
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B lympphocyte
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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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Antibody
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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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T lymphocyte
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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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Cytokine
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A protein thatinduces that proliferation of other cells, as in the immune system
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