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Pain-pleasure principle

pain-pleasure principle

A psychoanalytic concept that, in a human's psychic functioning, he/she tends to seek pleasure and avoid pain; a term borrowed by experimental psychology to denote the same tendency of an animal in a learning situation.

Synonym: pleasure principle.


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Re: Are tissues in the body capable of sensing pain?

... function (Then I wonder how come these neural receptors happen to be quite near these tissues if they are not in the group as such)? thats the principle of the organ system a system is actually consisting of many different organs interrelating to each other but they do not need to be of the ...

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by volcob
Thu Dec 27, 2007 8:51 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Are tissues in the body capable of sensing pain?
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Tree of life

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by AstusAleator
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