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Question 0

Instinct

Answer 0

A complex behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species and is unlearned

Question 1

Motivation

Answer 1

A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior

Question 2

Ride-reduction theory

Answer 2

The idea that a psychological need creates an aroused tension state (a drive) that motivated an organism to satisfy the need

Question 3

Homeostasis

Answer 3

Tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal state; the regulation of any body chemistry, such as blood glucose, around a particular level

Question 4

Incentive

Answer 4

A positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behavior

Question 5

Heirarchy of Needs

Answer 5

Maslows pyramid of human needs beginning at the base with psychological needs that must first be satisfied before higher level safety needs and then psychological needs become active

Question 6

Glucose

Answer 6

The form of sugar that circulates in the blood and provides the major source of energy for body tissue. When level is low, we feel hunger

Question 7

Set Point

Answer 7

The point at which an individuals “weight thermostat” is supposedly set. When the body falls below this weight, an increase in hunger and lowered metabolic rate may act to restore the lost weight

Question 8

Basal Metabolic Rate

Answer 8

The bodies resting rate of energy expenditure

Question 9

Anorexia Nervosa

Answer 9

A eating disorder in which a person (usually teen girl) diets and becomes significantly (15% more) underweight yet, still feeling fat, continues to starve

Question 10

Bulimia Nervosa

Answer 10

An eating disorder characterized by episodes of overeating, usually high calorie foods, followed by vomiting, laxative use and fasting, or excessive exercise

Question 11

Binge eating disorder

Answer 11

Significant binge eating episodes, followed by distress, disgust or guilt. Without purging like Bulimia

Question 12

Sexual response cycle

Answer 12

The four stages of sexual responding described by Masters and Johnson- excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution

Question 13

Refractory period

Answer 13

A resting period after orgasm, during which a man cannot reach another orgasm

Question 14

Estrogens

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Sex hormones, secreted in greater amounts in females than in males and contributing to female sex characteristics . In nonhuman female mammals, estrogen levels peak during ovulation promoting sexual receptivity

Question 15

Testosterone

Answer 15

The most important of the male sex hormones. Both males and females have it, but the additional testosterone in male stimulates the growth of the male sex organs in the fetus and the development of the male sex characteristics during puberty

Question 16

Sexual orientation

Answer 16

An enduring sexual attraction toward members of either ones own sex(homosexual) or the other sex (heterosexual)