Week 17 Flashcards
Drive state
Affective experiences motivate organisms to fulfill goals that are generally beneficial to their survival and reproduction
Homeostasis
The tendency of an organism to maintain a stable state across all the different physiological systems in the body
Homeostatic set point
An ideal level that the system being regulated must be monitored and compared to
Hypothalamus
- A brain structure located below the thalamus and above the brain stem
- involved in a variety of functions, including the secretion of various hormones and the regulation of hunger and sexual arousal.
Lordosis
A physical sexual posture in females that serves as an invitation to mate
Preoptic area
A region in the anterior hypothalamus involved in generating and regulating male sexual behavior
Reward value
A neuropsychological measure of an outcome’s affective importance to an organism
Satiation
The state of being full to satisfaction and no longer desiring to take on more
Emotion
An experiential, physiological, and behavioral response to a personally meaningful stimulus
Emotion coherence
The degree to which emotional responses (subjective experience, behavior, physiology, etc.) converge with one another
Emotion fluctuation
The degree to which emotions vary or change in intensity over time
Well-being
The experience of mental and physical health and the absence of disorder
Amygdala
Two almond-shaped structures located in the medial temporal lobes of the brain
Neuroscience
The study of the nervous system
Nucleus accumbens
A region of the basal forebrain located in front of the preoptic region
