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| necessary for making judgments about behavior and its consequences |
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| increase or decrease in physiological activity that is accompanied by a characteristic behavior or facial expression |
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| emotional experience results from the physiological arousal that preces it, and different emotions are the result of different patterns of arousal |
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| physiological arousal contributes only to the emotion's intensity, while the identity of the emotion is based on the cognitive assessment of the situation |
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| network of structures arraged around the upper brain stem |
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| anterior cingulate cortex |
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| a part of the cingulate gyrus important in attention, cognitive processing, and possibly consciousness, as well as emotion |
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| skin conductance response(SCR) |
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| which is a measure of swear gland activation and , thus of sympathetic nervous system activity |
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| small limbic system structure in each temporal lobe that is involved in emotions, especially negative ones |
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a condition in the environment tht makes unusual demands on the organism, such as threat, failure, or bereavement it's also an internal condition, your response to a stressful situation |
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| hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal asix |
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| group of structures that help the body cope with stress |
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| increases energy levels by converting proteins to glucose, increasing fat availability and increasing metabolism |
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| cells and cell products that kill infected and malignant cells and protect the body against foreign substances, including bacteria and viruses |
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Leukocytes (white blood cells) |
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| recognize invaders by the unique proteins that every cell has on its surface and kills them |
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| ingests intruders.. then it displas the intruder's antigens on its own cell surface; this attracts T cells |
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| another type of leukocyte that is specific for particular antigens, which kill invaders |
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third type of leukocyte -fight intruders by producing antibodies that attack a particular cell type |
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second typ eof immune cells, -attack and destroy certain kinds of cancer cells and cells infected with viruses |
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| immune system goes amok and attacks the body's own cells |
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| stress causes excessive sympathetic activity that sends the heart into fibrillation, contracting so rapidly that it pumps little or no blood |
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| congenital insensitivity to pain |
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| born unable to sense pain |
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unprovoked attack on another animal - |
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| occurs in response to threat and is motivated by fear |
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| antisocial personality disorder |
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behave recklessly -violate social norms; -commit antisociall acts like fighting, stealing, using drugs, and engaging in sexual promiscuity; and show little or no remorse for their behavior |
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