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Juan Is an Atheist, Does What He Wants, and Is

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Juan is an atheist, does what he wants, and is alienated from others. He feels life isn't worth living and kills himself. According to Emile Durkheim, Juan would be classified as an:


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Receptor Cells

Specialized cells that convert external stimuli into electrical signals for the nervous system to process.

Opponent-process Theory

Opponent-process theory is a psychological and neurological model that describes how the perception of one stimulus (color, emotion, pain) is dependent on the opposite function of its pair.

Ewald Hering

A 19th-century German physiologist who proposed the opponent-process theory of color vision.

Young-Helmholtz Theory

A theory of color vision that proposes the eye detects colors through the relative rates of response by three kinds of cones, each one sensitive to different wavelengths of light.

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