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| 1944291179 | motivation | goal directed behavior | 0 | |
| 1944291180 | homeostasis | state of physiological equilibrium or stability | 1 | |
| 1944291181 | drive | internal state of tension that motivates an organism to engage in activities that should reduce this tension | 2 | |
| 1944291182 | incentive | an external goal that has the capacity to motivate behavior | 3 | |
| 1944291183 | Madsen's list of biological needs | hunger, thirst sex | 4 | |
| 1944291184 | Murray's list of social needs | achievement, affiliation and dominance | 5 | |
| 1944291185 | leptin | long-term regulation of hunger, produced by fat cells | 6 | |
| 1944291186 | insulin | hormone secreted by the pancreas | 7 | |
| 1944291187 | ghrelin | stomach contractions and promotes hunger, produced by stomach | 8 | |
| 1944291188 | palatability | the better the food tastes, the more of it people consume | 9 | |
| 1944291189 | quantity available | determinant of the amount eaten is the amount available; people tend to consume what is put in front of them | 10 | |
| 1944291190 | variety | humans and animals increase their consumption when a greater variety of foods is available (sensory-specific satiety) | 11 | |
| 1944291191 | presence of others | individuals eat 44% more when they eat with other people as opposed to eating alone | 12 | |
| 1944291192 | obesity | the condition of being overweight | 13 | |
| 1944291193 | body mass index | weight in kg/height in meters squared (kg/m^2) | 14 | |
| 1944291194 | phases of sexual response | excitement phase, plateau phase, orgasm phase, resolution phase | 15 | |
| 1944291195 | excitement phase | level of physical arousal arise rapidly--> muscle tension, respiration, heart rate and blood pressure increase rapidly | 16 | |
| 1944291196 | vasocongestion | engorgement of blood vessels during excitement phase | 17 | |
| 1944291197 | plateau phase | physiological arousal continues to build but at a slower pace | 18 | |
| 1944291198 | orgasm phase | sexual arousal reaches its peak intensity; heart rate, respiration rate and blood pressure increase sharply | 19 | |
| 1944291199 | refractory period | a time following orgasm during which males are largely unresponsive to further stimulation | 20 | |
| 1944291200 | parental investment | what each sex has to invest in terms of time, energy, survival risk and forgone opportunities to produce and nurture offspring | 21 | |
| 1944291201 | sexual orientation | a person's preference for emotional and sexual relationships with individuals of the same sex, the other sex, or either sex | 22 | |
| 1944291202 | heterosexuals | seek emotional relationships with members of other sex | 23 | |
| 1944291203 | bisexuals | seek emotional relationships with members of either sex | 24 | |
| 1944291204 | homosexuals | seek emotional relationships with members of the same sex | 25 | |
| 1944291205 | Kinsey's seven point scale | 0 exclusively heterosexual- 6 exclusively homosexual | 26 | |
| 1944291206 | achievement motive | the need to master difficult challenges to outperform others and to meet high standards of excellence | 27 | |
| 1944291207 | emotion | a subjective conscious experience accompanied by bodily arousal (physical component) and by characteristic overt expressions (the behavioral component) | 28 | |
| 1944291208 | affective forecasting | efforts to predict one's emotional reactions to future events | 29 | |
| 1944291209 | galvanic skin response (GSR) | increase in the electrical conductivity of the skin that occurs when sweat glands increase their activity | 30 | |
| 1944291210 | polygraph | a device that records autonomic fluctuations while a subject is being questioned | 31 | |
| 1944291211 | six fundamental emotions | happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise and disgust | 32 | |
| 1944291212 | display rules | norms that regulate the appropriate expression of emotions | 33 | |
| 1944291213 | James-Lange Theory | emotion results from one's perception of autonomic arousal | 34 | |
| 1944291214 | Cannon-Bard theory | emotions originate in subcortical areas of the brain | 35 | |
| 1944291215 | Schachter's two factor theory | people infer emotion from arousal and then label the emotion in accordance with their cognitive explanation for the arousal | 36 | |
| 1957229477 | adaptation level principle | our conceptualizations of happiness or satisfaction is relative to our previous experiences | 37 | |
| 1957229478 | relative deprivation principle | our conceptualization of happiness is not only defined by our past experiences but also relative to attainments (resources to sustain diet, lifestyle, activities, etc) | 38 | |
| 1957229479 | thalamus | sends sensory input along two independent neural pathways (one to the amygdaloid and one to the cerebral cortex | 39 | |
| 1957229480 | amygdaloid | emotional and behavioral reaction | 40 | |
| 1957229481 | cerebral cortex | conscious interpretation | 41 | |
| 1957229482 | appraisal process | what we think is desireable or not desirable for us | 42 | |
| 1957229483 | James-Lange | feel afraid because pulse is racing | 43 | |
| 1957229484 | Cannon-Bard | thalamus sends signals simultaneously to the cortex and ANS | 44 | |
| 1957229485 | Schacter's Two Factor Theory | look to external cues to decide what we feel | 45 | |
| 1957229486 | evolutionary theores | innate reactions with little cognitive implementation | 46 | |
| 1957229487 | motivation | process that influences the direction, persistence and vigor of goal directed behavior | 47 | |
| 1957229488 | adaptive significance | we are motivated to engage in behavior that promotes survival advantages | 48 | |
| 1957229489 | extrinsic motivation | performing an activity to obtain an external reward or punishment | 49 | |
| 1957229490 | intrinsic motivation | performing an activity because you find it enjoyable or stimulating | 50 | |
| 1957229491 | drive reduction theory | the push and pull of needs and wants (continuing to return the body to homeostasis) | 51 | |
| 1957229492 | instinct theory | many behaviors are biologically "hard wired" such that no learning is required for their expression | 52 | |
| 1957229493 | incentive theory | he value of a goal object determined the likelihood of an individual to seek out that object | 53 | |
| 1957229494 | arousal theory | individuals engage in behaviors to produce sensory stimulation and reduce bored one (intentional challenges to homeostasis) | 54 | |
| 1957229495 | social penetration theory | interactions between people become broader and deeper, self disclosure plays an important role | 55 |
