Physiological Needs

Question 1

What are the fundamentals of regulation of physiological needs?

Answer 1

• A cyclical pattern
  Rise and fall of psychological drive
• Seven core processes
  Need, drive, homeostasis, negative feedback, multiple inputs/outputs, intraorganismic and extraorganismic mechanisms

Question 2

What is the physiological need?

Answer 2

• Describes a decient biological condition
• Unmet and intense, represent life-threatining emergencies

Question 3

What is psychological drive?

Answer 3

• The conscious manifestation of an underlying biological need
• Psychological term, has motivational properties

Question 4

What is homeostasis?

Answer 4

• The body’s tendency to maintain a stable internal state
• Generate the motvation necessary to energize and direct homeostasis-restoring behaviors

Question 5

What is negative feedback?

Answer 5

• Refers to homeostasis physiological stop system
• Stops behavior
• Signals satiety long before need is fully replenished

Question 6

What is multiple inputs/outputs?

Answer 6

• Drive has multiple inputes, means of activation
  Reasons for why you get thristy
• Multiple outputs, to satisfy the drive
  Different ways to satisfy hunger
  Goal-directed behaviors

Question 7

What is intraorganismic mechanisms?

Answer 7

• Include all biological regulatory system within a person
• Activat, maintain and terminate physiological needs that underline drive

Question 8

What is extraorganismic mechanisms?

Answer 8

• Inlcude all environmental influences on activating, maintaining and terminating physchological drive
• Cognitive, environmental, social and cultural

Question 9

What are our phsyiological needs?

Answer 9

• Hunger
• Thirst
• Sex

Question 10

Physiological need - Thirst

Answer 10

• Bodies are 2 thirds of water, within cells and outside cells
• Continuelly loose water, need to drink water throughout the day
• Without water for 2 days = death

Question 11

Physiological need - Thirst satiety and environmental influences

Answer 11

• Negative feedback interfere, not drinking too much
• Satiety comes from mouth, stomach and cells
• Hypothalamus gives out thirst
• Taste influence drinking
• Drinks with caffeine or alcohol can give addictions
• Preferences on how much to drink

Question 12

Physiological Needs - Hunger

Answer 12

• A more complex system
• Short term apetite and long-term
• Heavily influenced by cognitive, social and environment
  Stress, taste of food, eating is a social event

Question 13

Short-term apetite

Answer 13

• Regulate initiation of meals, its size and termination
• Hunger due to bodily changes, glucose dropping
• Change in response to nonbrain-based cues
  Cold temperature, cues from the mouth and stomach

Question 14

Long-Term Energy Balance

Answer 14

• Drop in fat stores, increases hormones that promote weight gain motivation behaviors
• The fat stores are set by genetics
• Long-term factors that regulate food intake and body weight