Myers Psychology for AP 2e - Unit 08
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| 8609423299 | motivation | a need or desire that energizes and directs behavior. (Myers Psychology for AP 2e p. 390) | 0 | |
| 8609423300 | instinct | a complex behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species and is unlearned. (Myers Psychology for AP 2e p. 391) | 1 | |
| 8609423301 | 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 2e p. 391) | 2 | |
| 8609423302 | 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 2e p. 391) | 3 | |
| 8609423303 | incentive | a positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behavior. (Myers Psychology for AP 2e p. 392) | 4 | |
| 8609423305 | 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 2e p. 393) |  | 5 |
| 8609423306 | 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 2e p. 397) | 6 | |
| 8609423307 | 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 2e p. 398) | 7 | |
| 8609423308 | basal metabolic rate | the body's resting rate of energy expenditure. (Myers Psychology for AP 2e p. 398) | 8 | |
| 8609423309 | sexual response cycle | Excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution. | 9 | |
| 8609423310 | refractory period | (2) a resting period after orgasm, during which a man cannot achieve another. (Myers Psychology for AP 2e p. 407) | 10 | |
| 8609423311 | sexual dysfunction | a problem that consistently impairs sexual arousal or functioning. (Myers Psychology for AP 2e p. 407) | 11 | |
| 8609423312 | 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 2e p. 408) | 12 | |
| 8609423313 | testosterone | the most important of the male sex hormones. Both males and females have it, but the additional testosterone 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 2e pp. 408, 526) | 13 | |
| 8609423314 | emotion | a response of the whole organism, involving (1) physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience. | 14 | |
| 8609423315 | James-Lange theory | the theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli. (Myers Psychology for AP 2e p. 421) | 15 | |
| 8609423316 | Cannon-Bard theory | the theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experience of emotion. (Myers Psychology for AP 2e p. 422) | 16 | |
| 8609423317 | two-factor theory | the Schachter-Singer theory that to experience emotion one must (1) be physically aroused and (2) cognitively label the arousal. (Myers Psychology for AP 2e p. 422) | 17 | |
| 8609423319 | facial feedback effect | the tendency of facial muscle states to trigger corresponding feelings such as fear, anger, or happiness. (Myers Psychology for AP 2e p. 438) | 18 | |
| 8609433849 | Lateral hypothalamus | Part of brain controlling hunger. If destroyed, we stop eating. If stimulated, we overeat. | 19 | |
| 8609435681 | Ventromedial hypothalamus | Part of brain controlling hunger. If destroyed, we overeat. If stimulated, we stop eating. | 20 |
