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| 6251356967 | Emotion | a response of the whole organism, involving (1) physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience. |  | 0 |
| 6251356968 | Cannon-Bard Theory | the theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experience of emotion. |  | 1 |
| 6251356970 | Polygraph | a machine, commonly used in attempts to detect lies, that measures several of the physiological responses accompanying emotion (such as perspiration and cardiovascular and breathing changes). |  | 2 |
| 6251356971 | Facial Feedback | the effect of facial expressions on experienced emotions, as when a facial expression of anger or happiness intensifies feelings of anger or happiness. |  | 3 |
| 6251356972 | Catharsis | an emotional release. The hypothesis for this maintains that "releasing" aggressive energy (through action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges. |  | 4 |
| 6251356973 | Feel-Good, Do-Good Phenomenon | people's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood. |  | 5 |
| 6251356974 | Well-Being | self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with objective measures (for example, physical and economic indicators) to evaluate people's quality of life. |  | 6 |
| 6251356975 | Adaptation-Level Phenomenon | our tendency to form judgments (of sounds, of lights, of income) relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience. |  | 7 |
| 6251356976 | Relative Deprivation | the perception that we are worse off relative to those with whom we compare ourselves. |  | 8 |
| 6251356977 | Behavioral Medicine | an interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease. |  | 9 |
| 6251356978 | Health Psychology | a subfield of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine. |  | 10 |
| 6251356979 | Stress | the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging. |  | 11 |
| 6251356980 | General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) | Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three phases—alarm, resistance, exhaustion. |  | 12 |
| 6251356981 | Coronary Heart Disease | the clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in many developed countries. |  | 13 |
| 6251356982 | Type A | Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people. |  | 14 |
| 6251356983 | Type B | Friedman and Rosenman's term for easygoing, relaxed people. |  | 15 |
| 6251356984 | Psychophysiological Illness | literally, "mind-body" illness; any stress-related physical illness, such as hypertension and some headaches. |  | 16 |
| 6251356985 | Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) | the study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health. |  | 17 |
| 6251356986 | Lymphocytes | the two types of white blood cells that are part of the body's immune system. The B type of this form in the bone marrow and release antibodies that fight bacterial infections; The T type of this form in the thymus and other lymphatic tissue and attack cancer cells, viruses, and foreign substances. |  | 18 |
| 6251356987 | Motivation | a need or desire that energizes and directs behavior |  | 19 |
| 6251356988 | Instinct | a complex behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species and is unlearned |  | 20 |
| 6251356989 | Drive-Reduction Theory | the idea that a physiological need creates an aroused tension state (a drive) that motivates an organism to satisfy the need |  | 21 |
| 6251356990 | Homeostasis | 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 |  | 22 |
| 6251356991 | Incentive | a positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behavior |  | 23 |
| 6251356993 | Glucose | 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 |  | 24 |
| 6251356994 | Set Point | 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 lowered metabolic rate may act to restore the lost weight |  | 25 |
| 6251356995 | Basal Metabolic Rate | the body's resting rate of energy expenditure |  | 26 |
| 6251356996 | Anorexia Nervosa | an eating disorder in which a person (usually an adolescent female) diets and becomes significantly (15 percent or more) underweight, yet, still feeling fat, continues to starve |  | 27 |
| 6251356997 | Bulimia Nervosa | an eating disorder characterized by episodes of overeating, usually of high-calorie foods, followed by vomiting, laxative use, fasting, or excessive exercise |  | 28 |
| 6251356998 | Binge-Eating Disorder | significant binge-eating episodes, followed by distress, disgust, or guilt, but without the compensatory purging, fasting, or excessive exercise that marks bulimia nervosa |  | 29 |
| 6251356999 | Sexual Response Cycle | the four stages of sexual responding described by Masters and Johnson—excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution |  | 30 |
| 6251357000 | Refractory Period | a resting period after orgasm, during which a man cannot achieve another orgasm |  | 31 |
| 6251357001 | Estrogens | sex hormones, such as estradiol, 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 receptivity |  | 32 |
| 6251357002 | Testosterone | the most important of the male sex hormones. Both males and females have it, but the additional levels in males stimulates the growth of the male sex organs in the fetus and the development of the male sex characteristics during puberty |  | 33 |
| 6251357003 | Sexual Orientation | an enduring sexual attraction toward members of either one's own sex (homosexual orientation) or the other sex (heterosexual orientation) |  | 34 |
| 6251357004 | Motivation | A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior |  | 35 |
| 6251357005 | Emotion | our feelings - composed of a four part process physiological arousal, subjective feelings, cognitive interpretation/appraisal, and behavioral expression | 36 | |
| 6251357006 | Drive | an internal aroused condition that directs an organism to satisfy a physiological need | 37 | |
| 6251357007 | Instinct Theory | supported by evolutionary psychology, posits that the learning of species-specific behavior motivates organisms to do what is necessary to ensure their survival |  | 38 |
| 6251357008 | Fixed Action Pattern | genetically programmed, virtually unchangeable behavioral sequence performed in response to a certain stimulus |  | 39 |
| 6251357009 | Ethologists | study animal behavior in the natural setting aka Konrad Lorenz - imprinting | 40 | |
| 6251357010 | Drive Theory of Motivation | deviations from homeostasis create unmet physiological needs that result in tension that directs behavior to meet the need and ultimately bring the system back to homeostasis | 41 | |
| 6251357012 | Arousal Theory of Motivation | people perform actions in order to maintain an optimal level of arousal | 42 | |
| 6251357013 | Yerkes - Dodson Law of Arousal | The Yerkes-Dodson Law suggests that there is a relationship between performance and arousal. Increased arousal can help improve performance, but only up to a certain point. At the point when arousal becomes excessive, performance diminishes. |  | 43 |
| 6251357014 | External Locus of Control | the perception that chance or outside forces beyond one's personal control determine one's fate | 44 | |
| 6251357015 | Internal Locus of Control | people with this tned to respond to internal states and desires; they tend to see their successes as the result of their own efforts | 45 | |
| 6251357016 | Freud's Theory of Motivation | Eros and Thanatos and underlying subconscious forces impact on motivation | 46 | |
| 6251357017 | Abraham Maslow's Theory of Motivation | a listing of needs organized by priority - aka Hierarchy of Needs | 47 | |
| 6251357018 | Hierarchy of Needs | Maslow's pyramid of human needs, beginning at the base with physiological needs that must first be satisfied before higher-level safety needs and then psychological needs become active |  | 48 |
| 6251357019 | Over justification | the tendency for intrinsic motivation to diminish for activities that have become associated with reward or other extrinsic factors |  | 49 |
| 6251357020 | Multiple Systems Approach of Hunger | Hunger motivation is far more complex than just biology - you must incorporate emotional, cognitive and social reasons people eat as well | 50 | |
| 6251357021 | Set Point Theory | belief that brain mechanisms regulate body weight around a genetically predetermined 'set point' |  | 51 |
| 6251357022 | Lateral Hypothalamus | The part of the hypothalamus that produces hunger signals - Let's Eat | 52 | |
| 6251357023 | Ventromedial Hypothalamus | The part of the hypothalamus that produces feelings of fullness as opposed to hunger, and causes one to stop eating. Produces satiety | 53 | |
| 6251357024 | Satiety | Condition of being too full or too satisfied |  | 54 |
| 6251357025 | Orexin | Hunger-triggering hormone secreted by hypothalamus | 55 | |
| 6251357026 | Ghrelin | hormone secreted by empty stomach; sends "I'm hungry" signals to the brain | 56 | |
| 6251357027 | Glucose | A sugar that is the major source of energy for the body's cells | 57 | |
| 6251357028 | Insulin | Hormone released by the pancreas that lowers blood sugar | 58 | |
| 6251357029 | PYY | digestive tract hormone; sends "I'm not hungry" signals to the brain |  | 59 |
| 6251357030 | Leptin | A hormone produced by adipose (fat) cells that acts as a satiety factor in regulating appetite. | 60 | |
| 6251357031 | Lipids | Energy-rich organic compounds, such as fats & oils. |  | 61 |
| 6251357032 | CKK | Produced in the digestive tract to increase satiety | 62 | |
| 6251357033 | Sexual Motivation | caused by both influential hormones as well as environmental factors, and highly variable across cultures and individuals | 63 | |
| 6251357034 | Masters and Johnson | became the most famous sex researchers since Alfred Kinsley by studying couples to understand the sexual response cycle in the 1960s |  | 64 |
| 6251357035 | Sexual Response Cycle | the four stages of sexual responding described by Masters and Johnson - excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution |  | 65 |
| 6251357036 | Sexual Cues | responding to sex and the idea of sex | 66 | |
| 6251357037 | Sexual Scripts | stereotyped patterns of expectancies for how people should behave sexually | 67 | |
| 6251357038 | Paraphilia | a sexual disorder in which the person's preferred method of sexual arousal and fulfillment is through sexual behavior that is unusual or socially unacceptable | 68 | |
| 6251357039 | Sexual Fetishes | Getting sexual gratification from certain objects, events or locations. Ex: You like leather-clad lovers, or bondage or socks. This is classified as a sub-type of sexual preference. | 69 | |
| 6251357041 | Stress | Any circumstances that threaten or are perceived to threaten one's well-being and that thereby tax one's coping abilities. |  | 70 |
| 6251357042 | Eustress | A positive stress that energizes a person and helps a person reach a goal | | 71 |
| 6251357043 | Distress | A negative stress that can make a person sick or can keep a person from reaching a goal. | 72 | |
| 6251357044 | Stressors | specific events (acute) or chronic pressures that place demands on a person or threaten the person's well-being |  | 73 |
| 6251357045 | Traumatic Stressors | situation that threatens one's physical safety, arousing feelings of fear, horror, or helplessness |  | 74 |
| 6251357046 | Learned Helplessness | The behavior of giving up or not responding to punishment, exhibited by people or animals exposed to negative consequences or punishment over which they have no control |  | 75 |
| 6251357047 | Martin Seligman | Conducted experiments with dogs that led to the concept of "learned helplessness" | 76 | |
| 6251357048 | Post Traumatic Stress | an anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, and/or insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience | 77 | |
| 6251357049 | Physical Stress Response | Arousal - Fight/Flight or Freeze, ANS plus Endocrine System and a decrease in the effectiveness of the immune system | 78 | |
| 6251357050 | Fight or Flight Response | A series of physical changes that prepare the body to react to stress |  | 79 |
| 6251357051 | Acute Stress | A state of stress experienced in response to an immediate (short term) perceived threat, real or imagined | 80 | |
| 6251357052 | Chronic Stress | Stress associated with long-term problems that are beyond a person's control. | 81 | |
| 6251357053 | Adrenal Glands | a pair of endocrine glands that sit just above the kidneys and secrete hormones (epinephrine and norepinephrine) that help arouse the body in times of stress. | 82 | |
| 6251357054 | Hans Selye | (1907-1982) Psychologist who researched a recurring response to stress that he called the general adaptation syndrome | | 83 |
| 6251357055 | General Adaption Syndrome | A sequence of physical responses to any stressor. Alarm, Resistance and Exhaustion | 84 | |
| 6251357056 | Alarm (STAGE 1 -Selye's GAS Model) | First Stage of GAS - Body mobilizes resources to adapt to a stressor - ANS- Fight or Flight | 85 | |
| 6251357057 | Resistance (STAGE 2- Selye's GAS Model) | Stage of Resistance - body begins to adapt and even rebound as long as the stressor is resisted and/or no other stressors are introduced - uses body energy and will eventually run you down unless the stressors are removed | 86 | |
| 6251357058 | Exhaustion (STAGE 3- Selye's GAS Model) | Body begins to deplete its resources in response to an ongoing stressor | 87 | |
| 6251357059 | Tend and Befriend | under stress, people (especially women) often provide support to others and bond with and seek support from others |  | 88 |
| 6251357060 | Psychoneuroimmunology | A relatively new field of study, examines the effect of psychosocial stressors on the body's immune system. |  | 89 |
| 6251357061 | Cytokines | Hormone like proteins facilitating communication between the brain and the immune system negative and positive | 90 | |
| 6251357062 | Natural Immunity | immunity to disease that occurs as part of an individual's natural biologic makeup | 91 | |
| 6251357063 | Friedmann and Rosenman | Cardiologists who based on their understanding of heart disease wanted to see if there was a relationship between stress and heart disease. Sampled men aged between 39-59, all of which were healthy assessing the relationship between health and personality Type. Participants were then classed as either Type A or B. |  | 92 |
| 6251357064 | Type A Personality | Personality characterized by (1) a strong competitive orientation, (2) impatience and time urgency, and (3) anger and hostility. | 93 | |
| 6251357065 | Type B Personality | Personality characterized by relatively relaxed, patient, easygoing, amicable behavior. | 94 | |
| 6251357066 | Type AB Personality | Mixture of Type A and Type B Personalities. | 95 | |
| 6251357067 | Type C Personality | Person who is pleasant, but repressed, tends to internalize his or her anger and anxiety and who finds expressing emotions difficult. | 96 | |
| 6251357068 | Resilience | the ability to adapt effectively in the face of threats | 97 | |
| 6251357069 | Empathy | The ability to imagine and understand how someone else feels | 98 | |
| 6251357070 | James- Lange Theory of Emotion | This theory states that you first get a physical reaction and then from that you know your emotion. |  | 99 |
| 6251357071 | Spill over Effect | our physical state spills over to our emotional state |  | 100 |
| 6251357072 | Facial Feedback Theory | The Facial Feedback Theory holds that facial movement and expressions can influence attitude and emotional experience. For instance, when a person attends a function and is required to smile for the duration of the function, they will actually have a better experience of the function. SMILE |  | 101 |
| 6251357073 | Amygdala | Part of the limbic system, responsible for the emotional reactions of fear and anger. | 102 | |
| 6251357074 | Thalamus | Brain structure that receives messages from the sense organs and relays the information to the proper region of the cerebrum for further processing | 103 | |
| 6251357075 | Reticular Formation | A nerve network in the brainstem that plays an important role in controlling arousal. | 104 | |
| 6251357076 | Cerebral Cortex | The part of the brain where information processing takes place. Divided into four lobes. | 105 | |
| 6251357077 | Serotonin | Affects mood, hunger, sleep, and arousal |  | 106 |
| 6251357078 | Dopamine | Influences movement, learning, attention, and emotion |  | 107 |
| 6251357079 | Epinephrine and Norepinephrine | Key hormones of the sympathetic nervous system | 108 |
