A society's legal system is based on this premise, and therefore a violation of acceptable conduct is a violation of the laws of that society. ... As Eysenck and Gudjonsson (1989) stated: "What is inherited are certain peculiarities of the brain and nervous system that interact with certain environmental factors and thereby increase the likelihood that a person will act in a particular antisocial manner in a given situation" Eysenck believed that he could measure the three character traits using a personality questionnaire, designed to identify individuals with particular tendenc...

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The numbers are added and the result is an index of the amount of change related stress the person has recently experienced * Pressure involves expectations or demands that one behave in a certain way * Pressure is strongly related to measures of mental health * 3 reactions to stress: 1.Emotional responses- as stress increases, mood becomes more negative * the inverted U hypothesis predicts that task performance should improve with increased emotional arousal * as a task becomes more complex the optimal level of arousal decreases 2.Physiological responses- the fight or flight response i...

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Autism is a developmental disorder of the nervous system that affects a person's ability to communicate, form relationships with others, and respond effectively to the environment before the age of 3. ...

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Arranged in order of magnitude of variance accounted for in personality ratings, the five dimensions are (1) extraversion, energy, or enthusiasm; (2) agreeableness, altruism, or affection; (3) conscientiousness, control, or constraint; (4) neuroticism, negative affectivity, or nervousness; and (5) openness to experience, originality, or open-mindedness (John and Srivastava 1999). ...

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Physiological psychology is a field akin to neurophysiology that studies the relation between behaviour and body systems like the nervous system and the endocrine system. ... A psychological school, known as behaviourism, maintains that human behaviour is a learned response to a stimulus, and consequently tried to establish learning as the central topic of psychology. ...

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