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| 3951730380 | Motivation | Physiological and psychological factors that account for the arousal, direction, and persistence of behavior. 1) The factor or motivational state than prompts behavior 2) The goal(s) toward which the behavior is directed 3) The reasons for differences in the intensity of the behavior | 0 | |
| 3951751408 | instinct | Unlearned species-specific behaviors that are more complex than reflexes and triggered by environmental events called releasing stimuli | 1 | |
| 3951755490 | Drive | internal motivational state created by a physiological need | 2 | |
| 3951761827 | Drive-reduction theory | theory that views motivated behavior as directed toward the reduction of a physiological need | 3 | |
| 3951771024 | Optimum-level theory | Theory that the body functions best at a specific level of arousal, which varies from one individual to another | 4 | |
| 3951783862 | cognitive dissonance | Aversion state produced when an individual holds two incompatible thoughts or cognitions | 5 | |
| 3951791791 | Hierarchy of needs | Maslow's view that basic needs must be satisfied before higher-level needs can be satisfied. Biological Safety Attachment Esteem Self-Actualization | 6 | |
| 3951799349 | Self-actualization | need to develop one's full potential; the highest level of Maslows hierarchy | 7 | |
| 3951861281 | Body Mass Index (BMI) | A numerical index calculated from a person's height and weight that is used to indicate health status and disease risk | 8 | |
| 3951883204 | anorexia nervosa | a potentially life-threatning eaticg disorder occurring primarily in adolescents and young adult females; an intense fear of becoming fat leads to self starvation and weight loss accompanied by a strong belief that one is fat despite objective evidence to the contrary | 9 | |
| 3951887125 | Bulimia nervosa | eating disorder in which a victim alternately consumes large amounts of food (gorging) and then empties the stomach (purging), usually by induced vomiting | 10 | |
| 3951895026 | Pheromones | Chemical odors emitted by some animals that appear to influence the behavior of members of the same species | 11 | |
| 3951908964 | The sexual response | excitement plateau orgasm resolution refractory period | 12 | |
| 3951917214 | Achievment | Manipulation of the environment according to established rules to attain a desired goal. 1) behaviors that manipulate the environment in some manner 2) rules for perfoming those behaviors 3) accepted perfomance standards against which people compete and compare their performance Goals can be mastery goals or performance goals | 13 | |
| 3951931887 | basal metabolic rate | rate at which a person burns calorie to keep the body functioning. | 14 | |
| 3951953517 | Emotion | physiological changes and conscious feelings of pleasantness or unpleasantness, aroused by external and internal stimuli, that lead to behavioral reactions | 15 | |
| 3951988141 | James-Lange Theory | Theory that physiological changes precede and cause emotions 'afraid because we tremble' | 16 | |
| 3951993703 | commonsense view of emotions | view that emotions precede and cause bodily changes 'tremble because we are afraid' | 17 | |
| 3952002692 | Cannon-Bard theory | Theory that the thalamus relays information simultaneously to the cortex and to the sympathetic nervous system, causing emotional feelings and physiological changes to occur at the same time. | 18 | |
| 3952049713 | primary role of hippocampus | appears to be in processing memories | 19 | |
| 3952050410 | primary role of the amygdala | a small, almond-shaped structure--revieves sensory inputs and immediately evaluates the emotional meaning of stimuli *important to emotions | 20 | |
| 3952053401 | Role of the cortex | evaluates the meaning of the inputs | 21 | |
| 3952068593 | polygraph | An electronic device (often called a lie detector) that senses and records changes in several physiological indices including blood pressure, heart rate, respiration, and galvanic skin response. | 22 | |
| 3952082370 | alexithymia | marked inability to experience and express emotion | 23 | |
| 3952112826 | six emotions recognized everywhere | anger disgust fear happiness sadness surprise | 24 | |
| 3952122535 | Facial feedback hypothesis | Hypothesis that making a certian facial expression will produce the corresponding emotion | 25 | |
| 3952123292 | Display rules | culturally specific rules for which emotions to display, to who, and when | 26 | |
| 3952131878 | Nonverbal communication | communication that involves movements, gestures, facial expressions, eye contact, use of personal space, and touching | 27 | |
| 3952141602 | illustrators | nonverbal gestures/movements made while speaking that accent or emphasize words (don't communicate specific meanings. | 28 | |
| 3952144798 | Regulators | actions (eye contact and head nods) that oordinate the flow of communication among 2 + people | 29 | |
| 3952148918 | Adaptors (manipulators) | movements or objects manipulated for a purpose (scratiching grooming, doodling...) | 30 | |
| 3952152677 | Paralanguages | Communication that involves aspects of speech such as rate of talking and tone of voice, but not the words used. | 31 | |
| 3952188869 | emotional intelligence | The ability to perceive emotions in others The ability to facilitate thought Understanding emotions Managing emotions | 32 |
