Sentences with phrase «by emotional arousal»

Although the cognitive functioning of most adolescents approaches that of adults, the real - world circumstances under which they make decisions about whether to commit criminal acts are often shaped by emotional arousal and group pressure.

Anxiety disorders are characterized by emotional arousal associated with fear, worry, or nervousness that is out of proportion to the situation.

Not exact matches

And never fear, the vulnerability gap starts to close around 15 - 16, and inverts by 18 - 21, when self - regulation exceeds emotional arousal.

On one side, we have those who believe bedsharing allows for greater infant arousals, increases mom's awareness of her baby, helps babies by providing them with close comfort during the night, allows for easier breastfeeding, allows everyone in the family to sleep better, has long - term social and emotional benefits for baby, and can be done safely for baby.

«I was surprised by the specificity of the results, that the emotional memory improvement was specifically for the negative and high - arousal memories, and the ramifications of these results for people with anxiety disorders and PTSD,» Mednick said.

This novel study is the first to separate emotion from threat by controlling for the dimension of arousal, the emotional reaction provoked, whether positive or negative, in response to stimuli.

According to the article by Jennifer Schuessler, «Over the past two weeks, Mr. Grunberg has spent several hours a day writing his novella, while a battery of sensors and cameras tracked his brain waves, heart rate, galvanic skin response (an electrical measure of emotional arousal) and facial expressions.

In 2006, a small study by Indiana University found that teenagers who played violent video games showed higher levels of emotional arousal, but less activity in the parts of the brain associated with the ability to plan, control and direct thoughts and behavior.

Men are more likely to rehearse distress - maintaining thoughts than women, which may prologue their physiological arousal and hypervigilance, often causing their partners to flare up in response, until one by one, each partner is brought to a point of emotional detachment and avoidance.

So it's really about helping the child in a high state of arousal to kind of modulate their emotional experience by sensory means.

I would also suggest that your next article about the female orgasm should certainly, as Clea mentions, include some discussion of the fact that one of the major differences between the male and female orgasm (and in fact, between male and female readiness for sex, or degree of arousal, in general) is that emotional states seem to be much more important (which is not at all the same as saying that women don't like casual sex or can't be aroused by one - night stands, if that happens to be the emotional situation they are comfortable with).

Trait anxiety refers to stable individual differences in propensity for anxiety proneness whereas state anxiety is a transitory emotional reaction that is characterized by subjective feelings of tension, apprehension, nervousness, and worry; and is associated with physiological arousal.

Animal research also makes clear that withdrawing parental behaviours that fail to soothe the infant's fearful arousal are associated with enduring hyper - arousal of the stress response system.12, 13 Therefore, Lyons - Ruth, Bronfman and Atwood suggest that both fearful affect generated by the parent and fearful affect generated from other sources in the context of parental emotional unavailability may contribute to infant disorganization.14, 15 A spectrum of parental behaviours has been shown by meta - analysis to be associated with infant disorganization.

We suggest that the nature of emotional arousal which accompanies trauma alters the physical process by which the body regulates future affective stimuli in ways that are potentially detrimental to human relationships.

Sensitivity towards these bodily conditions and more specifically, towards changes in one's physiological state as represented by IS to one's heartbeat, has been shown to moderate the effect of bodily responses on emotional arousal [34, 35].

In other words, effective emotional regulation, promoted by a mother who is able to mentalize even in conditions of increased arousal as well as in the context of negative and ambivalent mental states, mediates the relationship between attachment security and mentalization ability.