Chapter 8

Question 1

Motivation

Answer 1

Need or desire that energizes and directs behaivour

Question 2

Instinct

Answer 2

Behavior that is patterned throughout a species and is unlearned

Question 3

Drive reduction theory

Answer 3

Idea that physiological need creates a drive that motivates the satisfy of need

Question 4

Homeostasis

Answer 4

Balance a internal state ie: regulating blood glucose levels

Question 5

Incentive

Answer 5

Positive/negative stimulus that motivates behavior

Question 6

Hierarchy of needs

Answer 6

Maslow’s in least to greatestphysiological needs must be met before higher safety needs

Question 7

Glucose

Answer 7

Form of sugar that through the bloodstream provides energy to tissues

Question 8

Set point

Answer 8

When the body falls below this ‘weight’ increase in hunger to make up for lost weight

Question 9

Basal metabolic rate

Answer 9

Resting rate of energy expenditure

Question 10

Anorexia nervosa

Answer 10

A person diets and becomes underweight yet still feeling fat

Question 11

Bulimia nervosa

Answer 11

Overeating followed by vomiting, fasting

Question 12

Binge-eating disorder

Answer 12

episodes of bing eating followed by distress/guilt but without the implications of bulimia

Question 13

Sexual response cycle

Answer 13

4 stages of sexual responding

• Excitement
• Plateau
• Orgasm
• Resolution

Question 14

Refractory period

Answer 14

Resting period after orgasm when a man cannot achieve another one

Question 15

Estrogen

Answer 15

sex hormones mainly apparent in females

Question 16

Testosterone

Answer 16

Important male sex hormone

Question 17

UNIT 8B (No question)

Answer 17

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Question 18

Emotion

Answer 18

Response expressive behavior physiological arousal and conscious experience

Question 19

James- Lange theory

Answer 19

Experience of emotion is being aware of physiological responses to emotion arousing stimuli

Question 20

Cannon- Bard theory

Answer 20

Emotion arousing stimuli trigger physiological responses and subjective experience of emotion

Question 21

Two- factor theory aka Schachter- Singer

Answer 21

To experience emotion one must be physically aroused and cognitively label arousel

Question 22

Polygraph

Answer 22

Lie detector machine by measuring physiological responses accompanying emotion

Question 23

Facial feedback

Answer 23

Effect of facial expressions on emotions

Question 24

Catharsis

Answer 24

Emotional release usually from anger

Question 25

feel good do good

Answer 25

peoples tendency to be helpful when in a good mood

Question 26

Well-being

Answer 26

Self perceived happiness with life.

Question 27

Adaptation level phenomenom

Answer 27

Tendency to form judgments relative to a neutral level

Question 28

Relative deprivation

Answer 28

Perception that we are worse off in relation to others whom we compare ourselves to

Question 29

Behavioral medicine

Answer 29

Integrates behavioral and medical knowledge

Question 30

Stress

Answer 30

Perceive and respond to certain events called stressors

Question 31

General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)

Answer 31

Selye’s concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress (Alarm, resistance, exhaustion

Question 32

Type A

Answer 32

competitive anger prone

Question 33

Type B

Answer 33

easygoing, relaxed