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| 8065266786 | Yerkes-Dodson Law | Empirical relationship between arousal and performance, it dictates that performance increases with physiological or mental arousal, but only up to a point |  | 0 |
| 8065266787 | Hierarchy of Needs | Maslow's theory of the most important motivations people have |  | 1 |
| 8065266788 | Glucose | Leads to insulin release and tells body to stop seeking food centers |  | 2 |
| 8065266789 | Set Point | The point at which one's body tries maintain weight |  | 3 |
| 8065266790 | Basal Metabolic Rate | An estimate of how much energy (in calories) the body burns when at rest |  | 4 |
| 8065266791 | Sexual Response Cycle | Its four stages are excitement, plateau, orgasm and resolution |  | 5 |
| 8065266792 | Refractory Period | Resting time; occurs in both neuron firing and in human sexual response |  | 6 |
| 8065266793 | Sexual Dysfunction | Any problem relating to sex that interferes with a person's ability to perform sexually |  | 7 |
| 8065266794 | Estrogen | One of the sex hormones that is necessary for proper female reproductive functioning as well as the development of secondary female characteristics |  | 8 |
| 8065266795 | Testosterone | Promotes the growth of male sex organs and other male-specific features |  | 9 |
| 8065266796 | Emotion | A simple definition of emotion is that it is a response by a whole organism, involving (1) physical arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience |  | 10 |
| 8065266797 | James-Lange Theory | Emotion in which physiological arousal precedes the emotion |  | 11 |
| 8065266798 | Cannon-Bard Theory | Emotion that says that a stimulus causes simultaneously physiological arousal and the subjective experience of an emotion |  | 12 |
| 8065266799 | Two-Factor Theory | States that emotion is based on two factors: physiological arousal and cognitive label |  | 13 |
| 8065266800 | Polygraph | Often called a "lie detector," is a machine that measures human responses to questions |  | 14 |
| 8065266801 | Facial Feedback Effect | Facial movement and expressions can influence attitude and emotional experience |  | 15 |
| 8065266802 | Health Psychology | Focuses on the more medical aspects of psychology and applies psychological principles to healing physical illness and medical problems |  | 16 |
| 8065266803 | Stress | A reaction to a stimulus that disturbs our physical or mental equilibrium, "Fight or Flight" |  | 17 |
| 8065266804 | General Adaptation Theory | Seyle's concept that the body responds to stress with alarm, resistance and exhaustion |  | 18 |
| 8065266805 | Tend and Befriend Response | Prompts humans to protect their own children, other children, people who are hurt or vulnerable, and to join humanitarian-oriented social groups that are intended to reduce human suffering |  | 19 |
| 8065266806 | Psychophysiological Illness | The brain can create illnesses, which include any stress-related physical illnesses like ulcers, headaches and blood pressure |  | 20 |
| 8065266807 | psychoneuroimmunology | Area of research that studies the interactions between mind and body and how mental and emotional stress can physically effect how the body works |  | 21 |
| 8065266808 | Lymphocytes | White blood cells that travel in the blood stream and defend the body from abnormal cells, disease-causing bacteria and viruses |  | 22 |
| 8065266809 | Coronary Heart Disease | Narrowing of the blood vessels that nourish the heart muscle, thus depriving the heart of the necessary blood to function properly |  | 23 |
| 8065266810 | Type A | Have a sense of time urgency, find it difficult to relax, and often become impatient and angry when they get delayed |  | 24 |
| 8065266811 | Type B | Better at relaxing without feeling guilty and working without becoming anxious or agitated |  | 25 |
| 8065266812 | Abraham Maslow 1908-1970 | Person associated with Humanism; Contributions: hierarchy of needs-needs at a lower level dominate an individual's motivation as long as they are unsatisfied, self-actualization, transcendence | 26 | |
| 8065266813 | William Masters 1957-1990 | Male person who pioneered research into the nature of human sexual response and the diagnosis and treatment of sexual dysfunctions and disorders-Worked with Virginia Johnson | 27 | |
| 8065266814 | Virginia Johnson 1957-1971 | Female person who pioneered research into the nature of human sexual response and the diagnosis and treatment of sexual dysfunctions and disorders- worked with William Masters | 28 | |
| 8065266815 | William James 1842-1910 | Person assiciated with functionalism; Contributions: studied how humans use perception to function in our environment; Studies: Pragmatism, The Meaning of Truth | 29 | |
| 8065266816 | Stanley Schechter 1922-present | Person who had a theory on emotion; Contributions: stated that in order to experience emotions a person must be physically aroused and know the emotion before you experience it | 30 | |
| 8065266817 | Hans Selye 1936-1992 | Person who did a lot of work on Stress | 31 |
