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17 Cards in this Set
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Motivation |
A need or desire that energizes and directs Behavior |
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Instinct |
A complex behavior that is rigidly pattern throughout a species and is unlearned |
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Drive reduction theory |
The idea that a psychological need creates and arrows tension state that motivates an organism to satisfy the need |
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Homeostasis |
A tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal state |
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Incentive |
A positive or negative environment stimulus that motivates Behavior |
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Hierarchy of needs |
Maslow's pyramid of human needs beginning at the base with the psychological needs that must first be satisfied before higher-level safety needs and then the psychological needs become active |
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Glucose |
The form of sugar that circulates in the blood and provides the major source of energy for body tissues |
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Set point |
The point at which an individual's weight thermostat is supposedly set |
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Basal metabolic rate |
The body's resting rate of energy expenditure |
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Anorexia nervosa |
An eating disorder in which a person diets and become significantly underweight still feeling that continues to starve |
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Bulimia nervosa |
An eating disorder characterized by episodes of overeating usually high calorie foods followed by vomiting laxatives use fasting for excessive exercise |
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Binge eating disorder |
Significant binge eating episode followed by distressed discussed or guilt but without the compensatory purging fasting or excessive exercise that marks bulimia nervosa |
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Sexual response cycle |
The four stages of sexual responding described by Masters and Johnson- excitement Plateau orgasm and resolution |
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Refactory period |
He resting period after orgasm during which a man cannot achieve another orgasm |
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Estrogens |
Sex hormones such as estradiol secreted in a greater amounts by females and males in contributing to female sex characteristics |
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Testosterone |
Most important of the male sex hormone |
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Sexual orientation |
And enduring sexual attraction toward members of either one's own sex or the other sex |
