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  2. Reactance (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    In psychology, reactance is an unpleasant motivational reaction to offers, persons, rules, regulations, criticisms, advice, recommendations, information, nudges, and messages that are perceived to threaten or eliminate specific behavioral freedoms. Reactance occurs when an individual feels that an agent is attempting to limit one's choice of ...

  3. Fathers as attachment figures - Wikipedia

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    Studies have found that the father is a child's preferred attachment figure in approximately 5–20% of cases. [1] [2] [3] Fathers and mothers may react differently to the same behaviour in an infant, and the infant may react to the parents' behaviour differently depending on which parent performs it.

  4. What is 'mindful parenting'? Experts say it's about ... - AOL

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    Experts say "mindful parenting" is all about thinking before reacting to a child's behavior, ...

  5. Antecedent (behavioral psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Antecedent stimuli (paired with reinforcing consequences) activate centers of the brain involved in motivation, [4] while antecedent stimuli that have been paired with punishing consequences activate brain centers involved in fear. [5] Antecedents play a different role while attempting to trigger positive and negative outcomes. [6]

  6. 'Kids look to adults:' Responding to child trauma 50 years ...

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    The philosophy surrounding responses to child trauma has certainly changed in the 50 years since the murders at Gitchie Manitou.

  7. Emotional dysregulation - Wikipedia

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    Emotional dysregulation is characterized by an inability to flexibly respond to and manage emotional states, resulting in intense and prolonged emotional reactions that deviate from social norms, given the nature of the environmental stimuli encountered. Such reactions not only deviate from accepted social norms but also surpass what is ...

  8. Fight-or-flight response - Wikipedia

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    The fight-or-flight or the fight-flight-freeze-or-fawn [1] (also called hyperarousal or the acute stress response) is a physiological reaction that occurs in response to a perceived harmful event, attack, or threat to survival. [2] It was first described by Walter Bradford Cannon in 1915.

  9. Mental chronometry - Wikipedia

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    T er, the non-decision reaction time component, consists of the sum of encoding time T e (first panel) and response output time T r (third panel), such that T er = T e + T r. Although a unified theory of reaction time and intelligence has yet to achieve consensus among psychologists, diffusion modeling provides one promising theoretical model.