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| 5022727534 | instinct | a complex behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species and is unlearned. (Myers Psychology for AP 1e p. 328) | 0 | |
| 5022727535 | drive-reduction theory | the idea that a physiological need creates an aroused tension state (a drive) that motivates an organism to satisfy the need. (Myers Psychology for AP 1e p. 329) | 1 | |
| 5022727536 | 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. (Myers Psychology for AP 1e p. 329) | 2 | |
| 5022727537 | incentive | a positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behavior. (Myers Psychology for AP 1e p. 329) | 3 | |
| 5022727538 | 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. (Myers Psychology for AP 1e p. 330) | 4 | |
| 5022727539 | 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. (Myers Psychology for AP 1e p. 333) | 5 | |
| 5022727540 | 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. (Myers Psychology for AP 1e p. 335) | 6 | |
| 5022727541 | basal metabolic rate | the body's resting rate of energy expenditure. (Myers Psychology for AP 1e p. 335) | 7 | |
| 5022727542 | 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. (Myers Psychology for AP 1e p. 337) | 8 | |
| 5022727543 | bulimia nervosa | an eating disorder characterized by episodes of overeating, usually of high-calorie foods, followed by vomiting, laxative use, fasting, or excessive exercise. (Myers Psychology for AP 1e p. 337) | 9 | |
| 5022727544 | 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. (Myers Psychology for AP 1e p. 337) | 10 | |
| 5022727545 | sexual response cycle | the four stages of sexual responding described by Masters and Johnson—excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution. (Myers Psychology for AP 1e p. 349) | 11 | |
| 5022727546 | refractory period | a resting period after orgasm, during which a man cannot achieve another orgasm. (Myers Psychology for AP 1e p. 349) | 12 | |
| 5022727547 | 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. (Myers Psychology for AP 1e p. 350) | 13 | |
| 5022727548 | 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. (Myers Psychology for AP 1e pp. 350, 438) | 14 | |
| 5022727549 | sexual orientation | an enduring sexual attraction toward members of either one's own sex (homosexual orientation) or the other sex (heterosexual orientation). (Myers Psychology for AP 1e p. 354) | 15 |
