Define the term "emotion," and give an example of what might be happening in your brain and body during a specific emotion such as anger.

What will be an ideal response?


Emotion may be an increase or decrease in physiological activity that is accompanied by feelings that are characteristic of emotion and accompanied by characteristic behaviors or expressions. Anger intensifies our defensive behavior, fear accelerates flight, and happiness encourages the behaviors that produce it.

Psychology

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a. Poor teens are less likely to participate in sex-education programs. b. Poor teens have fewer educational and economic prospects. c. Poor teens exhibit aggressive behavior. d. Poor teens are more likely to have adult supervision after school.

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What kind of computer might most closely resemble the human brain?

a. a PC computer b. an Apple computer c. an analog computer d. a digital computer

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New models of information processing have moved away from what analogy?

a. Innate learning like mammals b. The mind as a computer c. Social networks as spider webs d. Never forgetting how to ride a bike

Psychology

Freud believed that children lose interest in sexual behavior at the end of the ______stage

a. genital c. oral b. phallic d. anal

Psychology