Vocab

Question 1

Motivation

Answer 1

A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior

Question 2

Instinct

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A complex, unlearned behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species

Question 3

Drive reduction Theory

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The idea that a physiological need create an aroused tension state (a drive) that motivates an organism to satisfy the need

Question 4

Homeostasis

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A tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal state; the regulation of any aspect of body chemistry such as blood glucose around a particular level

Question 5

Incentive

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A positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behaviors

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Yerkes Dodson Law

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The principle that performance increases with arousal only up to a point beyond which performance decreases

Question 7

Hierarchy of needs

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Maslow’s pyramid of human needs beginning at the base with physiological needs that must be satisfied before higher level safety needs and then psychological needs become active

Question 8

Glucose

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The form of sugar that circulates in the blood and provides the major source of energy for body tissues. When its level is low we feel hunger

Question 9

Set point

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The point at which an individual’s weight thermostat is supposedly set. When the body falls below this weight an increase in hunger and a lower metabolic rate may act to restore the lost weight

Question 10

Basal metabolic rate

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The body’s resting rate of energy expenditures

Question 11

Sexual response cycle

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The 4 stages of sexual responding described by masters and Johnson excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution

Question 12

Refractory period

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A resting period after orgasm during which a man cannot achieve another orgasm

Question 13

Estrogen

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Sex hormone secreted in greater amounts by females than by males and contributing to female sex characteristics in nonhuman female mammals estrogen levels peak during ovulation promoting sexual receptively

Question 14

Testosterone

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The most important of the male sex hormones. Both females and males have it but the additional testosterone in males stimulate growth of the male sec organ in the fetus and the development of the male sex characteristics during puberty

Question 15

Emotion

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A response of the whole organism involving physiological arousal, expressive behaviors and conscious experience

Question 16

James Lange theory

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The theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion arousing stimuli

Question 17

Cannon Bard Theory

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The theory that an emotion arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers physiological triggers and the subjective experience of emotion

Question 18

Two factor Theory

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The schachter singer theory that to experience emotion must be physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal

Question 19

Facial Feedback Effect

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The tendency of facial muscles states to trigger corresponding feelings such as fear, anger and happiness

Question 20

Health psychology

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A sub field of psychology that provides psychology’s contribution to behavioral medicine

Question 21

Stress

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The process by which we perceive and respond to certain events called stressors that we appraise as threatening or challenging

Question 22

General adaptation syndrome (GAS)

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selye’s concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress in 3 phases (alarm, resistance, exhaustion)

Question 23

Tend and Befriend response

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Under stress people often provide support to others and bond with and seek support from others

Question 24

Psycho physiological illness

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mind body illness any stress related physical illness

Question 25

Psychoneuroimmunology

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the study of how psychological neural and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health

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Lymphocytes

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2 types of white blood cells that are part of the body’s immune system: B lymphocytes and T lymphocytes

Question 27

Coronary Heart disease

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clogging of the vessels from the nourishing the heart muscles

Question 28

Type A

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Friedman and Rose man’s term for competitive, hard driving, impatient, verbally aggressive and anger prone people

Question 29

Type B

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Friedman and Roseman’s term for easygoing and relaxed people