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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Physiological psychology"”.
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Differences in sympathetic nervous response due to gender
… response may be illuminated in the field of physiological psychology.
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THE UTILITARIAN - ASSOCIATIONIST TRADITION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF BRITISHPSYCHOLOGY, 1855-1903 (VOLUMES I AND II) (ALEXANDER BAIN, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, JAMES WARD, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON)
… John Stuart Mill shaped the framework of British psychology throughout the nineteenth century. These thinkers believed that an associationist and hedonistic science of mind provided a sound foundation for a non-intuitionistic philosophy (including epistemology, logic and ethics) and a program of …
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A physiological definition of style: science, religion, and women���s writings in the early American republic
… Enlightenment rhetoric, and Benjamin Rush’s physiological psychology in an analysis of transatlantic religious writing, speaking, and reading practices in the Atlantic world. Using Methodist women's spiritual journals, copybooks, and correspondence as my primary sources, I argue that the …
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Emotion Regulation and Cardiovascular Response to Emotion Provocation: Reappraisal versus Suppression
… individuals alter the subjective, behavioral and physiological responses to emotional experiences. Within the emotion regulation model, reappraisal and suppression are two strategies that have been studied extensively. However, this research has largely ignored the effects of individual …
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Glutamate Dysregulation in a TauP301L Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease
Individuals at risk for developing Alzheimer's disease (AD) often exhibit neuronal network hyperexcitability, particularly in the CA3 region of the hippocampus, in the years preceding AD diagnosis, suggesting that aberrant network activity might contribute to the pathogenesis of AD. Recently, the …
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Certified Athletic Trainers' Abilities to Identify and Refer Athletes with Psychological Symptoms
… to expand the literature based in the area of psychology of injury by assessing certified athletic trainers' (ATs') skills in symptom identification, intended course of action, and intervention identification with athletes experiencing psychological distress. Using a web-based survey protocol, …
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An Exploration of Stress Reactivity and Mindfulness Meditation in Individuals with Migraine Utilizing Heart Rate Variability
Headaches are associated with autonomic nervous system imbalance reflected in heart rate variability (HRV). Mindfulness Meditation (MM) is an evidence-based tool for regulating HRV. Previous literature has examined HRV changes in those with headache disorders after cognitive stress induction. These …
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Transfer of heart rate feedback training to reduce heart rate response to laboratory tasks
Researchers have demonstrated that individuals can successfully reduce their heart rate (HR) response to a stressor when provided with heart rate feedback. However, it is unclear whether individuals can transfer HR reduction skills to stressors not used during HR feedback training. The present …
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Heart rate reactivity, aggression, anger, and antisocial behavior in dating males
This study assessed heart rate reactivity and antisocial characteristics, subjective report of anger, and family history variables in 18 aggressive and 18 non-aggressive undergraduate males in an attempt to test the generalizability of Gottman et al.'s (1995) investigation of cardiovascular …
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Using impedance cardiography to examine changes in hemodynamic parameters during heart rate biofeedback
Reducing cardiovascular responses to stressors may help to reduce one's risk of developing cardiovascular disease. The present study examined the underlying hemodynamic changes that accompany heart rate (HR) response reduction to a stressor following HR feedback training. Twenty-five healthy …
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Effects of pain and fear stimulus intensity levels on pain responding in chronic pain patients
Fear has been found to increase and decrease pain responding in various contexts, and the effects of fear and pain stimulus intensity levels on pain responding have not been examined. Forty chronic pain patients were exposed to an algometer pressure pain device which stimulated different fingers; …
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Effects of maternal sleep deprivation on maternal sensitivity and contingent responsiveness
Research has revealed that sleep deprivation deleteriously affects several aspects of adults' behavior, such as mood, cognition, and motor performance. One population that is subject to sleep deprivation and the accompanying consequences are parents of young infants. The present study explored how …
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Effectiveness of Biofeedback in Improving Heart Rate Variability Recovery Following Stress
… determine whether such treatment affects phasic physiological responses to stress. Twenty-seven individuals (4 males, 23 females), aged 18-30 years (M = 22.54 years, SD = 3.82) participated in the current study. Thirteen individuals were randomly assigned to a control group and received no …
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An examination of psychological stress and its effects on the mitochondrial DNA
Background: With improvements in cellular stress measurement, current findings firmly implicate mitochondrial activity in cell stress reactions. Recent studies have highlighted the effects of psychological stress on mitochondria in terms of oxidative deterioration and crisis signalling. However, …
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Imagery use in fencing
The purposes of this study were to: (1) evaluate the motivational and cognitive components of imagery use among fencers, and (2) to determine if these motivational and cognitive components and the use of imagery among fencers is a function of skill level, experience, primary weapon, gender, or …
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Psychophysiological responses of older adults to an anxiety -evoking stimulus
… was to clarify the relation between anxiety and physiological responses in older adults as compared to younger adults. Heart rate (HR), skin conductance level (SCL), skin conductance response (SCR), systolic blood pressure (SBP), and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) were obtained before, during, …
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Developmental Alterations to the Alpha-Beta Neural Oscillations Underlying Verbal Working Memory Function in Children and Adolescents
Working memory (WM) is the ability to temporarily store and manipulate information. This cognitive function is critical for other complex behaviors such as reasoning, comprehension, and problem-solving. While behavioral improvements are well-documented, the underlying neural mechanisms of WM …
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Physiological Arousal and Social Linguistic Perception in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders
Previous research suggests that social and communicative impairments in individuals with ASD may be related to difficulties in processing social linguistic information. Processing such information may be more difficult for individuals with ASD because they experience increased arousal in social …
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Subjective norms, attitudes, body mass indices, and self esteem as influences on women's body image behavior
The purpose of this study was to demonstrate associations between perception of body image among women and their body image behaviors. A study was needed to determine the extent to which subjective norms, attitudes, beliefs, Body Mass Index, and self esteem were associated with body image …
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