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| 8337423598 | Motivation | Def: A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior. Ex: Motivated to do well on a test. | 0 | |
| 8337479468 | Instinct | Def: A complex behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species and is unlearned. Ex: Instinct to choose an answer. | 1 | |
| 8337509757 | Drive-reduction Theory | Def: The idea that a physiological need creates an aroused tension state (a drive) that motivates an organism to satisfy the need. Ex: Reducing the needs of eating and drinking. | 2 | |
| 8337542358 | Homeostasis | Def: A tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal state; the regulation of any aspect of body chemistry. Ex: Blood glucose. | 3 | |
| 8337559063 | Incentive | Def: A positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behavior. Ex: Money to get an A on a test. | 4 | |
| 8337577906 | Hierarchy of Needs | Def: 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 physiological needs become active. Ex: First hunger and thirst must be satisfied. | 5 | |
| 8337626824 | Glucose | Def: 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. |  | 6 |
| 8337648592 | Set Point | Def: 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. Ex: Dieting to find your set point weight that works the best for you. | 7 | |
| 8337670587 | Basal Metabolic Rate | Def: The body's resting rate of energy expenditure. Ex: The normal level at rest of metabolism. | 8 | |
| 8337688106 | Anorexia Nervosa | Def: 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. Ex: Not eating to lose weight and always feeling fat. | 9 | |
| 8337775101 | Bulimia Nervosa | Def: An eating disorder characterized by episodes of overeating, usually of high-calorie foods, followed by vomiting, laxative use, fasting, or excessive exercise. Ex: Eating a ton then starving. | 10 | |
| 8338290714 | Binge-eating disorder | Def: Significant binge-eating episodes, followed by distress, disgust, or guilt, but without the compensatory purging, fasting, or excessive exercise that marks bulimia nervosa. Ex: Eating without stopping or attempting to lose weight. | 11 | |
| 8338334448 | Sexual Response Cycle | Def: The four stages of sexual responding described by Masters and Johnson - excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution. Ex: The process in sexual responding. | 12 | |
| 8338362056 | Refractory Period | Def: A resting period after orgasm, during which a man can not achieve another orgasm. | 13 | |
| 8338390947 | Estrogens | Def: 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. Ex: Main female hormone | 14 | |
| 8338422584 | Testosterone | Def: 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 characteristic during puberty. Ex: Both in males and females but dominantly in male and it determines male character. | 15 | |
| 8338458324 | Sexual Orientation | Def: An enduring sexual attraction toward members of either one's own sex (homosexual orientation) or the other sex (heterosexual orientation). Ex: Attraction towards gender. | 16 | |
| 8562725190 | Emotion | Def: A response of the whole organism involving (1) physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience. Ex: Fear to a haunted house. | 17 | |
| 8562737447 | James-Lange Theory | Def: The theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli. Ex: Feeling sad once realizing and after crying. You feel the emotion after the body responds. | 18 | |
| 8562758757 | Cannon-Bard Theory | Def: The theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses, (2) the subjective experience of emotion. Ex: Heart rate increases while experiencing fear separately. | 19 | |
| 8562788473 | Two-Factor Theory | Def: The Schachter-Singer theory that to experience emotion on must (1) be physically aroused (2) cognitively label the arousal. Ex: An emotional experience requires a conscious interpretation of the arousal. | 20 | |
| 8562822229 | Polygraph | Def: 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). Ex: Using a machine to figure out what the truth is. | 21 | |
| 8562836885 | Facial Feedback | Def: The effect of facial expressions on experienced emotions, as when a facial expression of anger or happiness intensifies feelings of anger or happiness. | 22 | |
| 8562850874 | Catharsis | Def: Emotional release. The catharsis hypothesis maintains that "releasing" aggressive anger (through action or fantasy) relieves aggressive anger. Ex: Taking your anger out by punching a pillow. | 23 | |
| 8626338455 | Feel-good, do-good phenomenon | Def: People's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood. Ex: After winning a soccer game, I don't mind unloading the dishwasher. | 24 | |
| 8626341805 | Well-Being | Def: Self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with measures of objective well-being to evaluate people's quality of life. Ex: The state of life you are in and how happy you are with it. | 25 | |
| 8626353392 | Adaption-level Phenomenon | Def: Our tendency to form judgements (of sounds, of lights, of income) relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience. Ex: Making a judgement on a test score by comparing it to how you've done on others in the past. | 26 | |
| 8626359979 | Relative Deprivation | Def: The perception that we are worse off relative to those with whom we compare ourselves. Ex: Comparing yourself to your friends that are doing better than you in grades but not realizing how much better you are doing better than people below you. | 27 | |
| 8631558507 | Behavior Medicine | Def: An interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease. Ex: Helping provide ADD medicine. | 28 | |
| 8631567606 | Health Psychology | Def: A subfield of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine. Ex: How do our emotions and personality influence our rise of disease? | 29 | |
| 8631574766 | Stress | Def: The process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging. Ex: Homework stress. | 30 | |
| 8631620154 | General Adaptation Syndrome | Def: Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three phases - alarm, resistance, exhaustion. Ex: Physical or emotional trauma triggers alarm, outpouring of hormones with high blood pressure and heart rate, and finally, vulnerability. | 31 | |
| 8631583008 | Coronary Heart Disease | Def: The clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in North America. Ex: Blood flow is clogged resulting in the heart malfunctioning leading to death. | 32 | |
| 8641431389 | Type A | Def: Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people. Ex: A person who is constantly motivated but also shares it with a short temper. | 33 | |
| 8641445390 | Type B | Def: Friedman and Rosenman's term for easygoing, relaxed people. Ex: People who are chill. | 34 | |
| 8641453354 | Psychophysiological Illness | Def: Literally, "mind-body" illness; any stress-related physical illness, such as hypertension, and some headaches. Ex: Migraines. | 35 | |
| 8641463392 | Psychoneuroimmunology | Def: The study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health. Ex: How stress alters the function of our immune system. | 36 | |
| 8641484540 | Lymphocytes | Def: The two types of white blood cells that are part of the body's immune system; B lymphocytes form in the bone marrow and release antibodies that fight bacterial infections; T lymphocytes form in the thymus and other lymphatic form in the thymus and other lymphatic tissue and attack cancer cells, viruses, and foreign substances. Ex: The cells that fight harmful things in the body. | 37 |
