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Drosophila Maintenance
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2023
Drosophila melanogaster, commonly known as fruit flies, are a frequently used model organism for life science research. Although starting a collection of these critters may seem as easy as leaving a banana on your kitchen counter for too long, a productive fly colony in the lab requires careful husbandry and maintenance. This video demonstrates the necessary steps for maintaining a healthy fly stock. The overview begins with the preparation and storage of the yeast and sugar-containing media on...
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C. elegans Maintenance
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2023
Ceanorhabditis elegans has been, and is still, used to great success as a model organism for studying a variety of developmental, genetic, molecular and even physical phenomena. In order to use C. elegans to its full potential, proper care and attention to the basic maintenance of this powerful organism is essential. In this video you will learn the basic housing and feeding requirements of C. elegans, how to correctly handle and manipulate worms using a worm pick and how to freeze and recover...
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Yeast Maintenance
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2023
Research performed in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has significantly improved our understanding of important cellular phenomona such as regulation of the cell cycle, aging, and cell death. The many benefits of working with S. cerevisiae include the facts that they are inexpensive to grow in the lab and that many ready-to-use strains are now commercially available. Nevertheless, proper maintenance of this organism is critical for successful experiments. This video will provide an overview...
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Anesthesia Induction and Maintenance
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2016
Source: Kay Stewart, RVT, RLATG, CMAR; Valerie A. Schroeder, RVT, RLATG. University of Notre Dame, IN The Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals ("The Guide") states that pain assessment and alleviation are integral components of the veterinary care of laboratory animals. The definition of anesthesia is the loss of feeling or sensation. It is a dynamic event involving changes in anesthetic depth with respect to an animal's metabolism, surgical stimulation, or variations in the...
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Self-Concept
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2025
Self-concept is the cognitive and emotional understanding individuals hold about their identity. It evolves through various developmental stages, beginning in infancy and maturing as children grow. This concept influences how individuals perceive their abilities, interact with others, and manage challenges throughout life. Infancy and Emerging Recognition During infancy, self-concept is virtually nonexistent. Babies do not distinguish themselves as separate entities and often mistake their...
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Identity-threatening feedback can prompt people to reinterpret information rather than accept it at face value. They may question its meaning, emphasize alternative evidence, or explain the outcome in a way that protects their existing self-image. These responses help regulate self-esteem, but they can also contribute to resistance toward criticism that might otherwise support useful self-reflection.
Motivated reasoning directs interpretation toward conclusions that preserve a favorable view of the self, while self-serving judgments evaluate one’s choices or outcomes in a protective manner. Together, these processes can make successes feel personally deserved and threatening information easier to dismiss. Psychologists study them to understand why people may resist evidence that conflicts with their identity.
Justifying a decision provides an explanation that makes the choice appear compatible with a person’s self-image. When behavior seems inconsistent with important values, psychological distancing can reduce the apparent conflict between conduct and identity. In moral dilemmas, these responses help explain how people preserve a favorable self-view even while confronting actions or choices they find troubling.
The same maintenance processes can support different reactions depending on whether an event confirms or threatens the person’s self-image. Success may be interpreted as evidence of valued qualities, whereas failure or criticism may invite reinterpretation, justification, or comparison with others. Examining these patterns helps psychology explain self-serving judgments and resistance to identity-threatening information.
In education, it can shape responses to feedback about performance; in health behavior, it can affect reactions to information that challenges a person’s self-understanding; and in relationships, it can influence how criticism or conflict is interpreted. These contexts matter because preserving a favorable identity may either support emotional stability or make corrective information harder to accept.
Interventions can account for the tendency to resist information that threatens identity by supporting adaptive self-reflection rather than relying only on direct criticism. Helping people examine choices, feedback, and value conflicts without abandoning a coherent sense of self may make change more sustainable. This approach is relevant when the goal is lasting behavior change across psychological and health-related settings.