8b Flashcards
I need or desire that energizes and directs behavior
Motivation
The complex behavior that is rigidly pattern through a species and is unlearned
Instinct
The idea that physiological need creates an aroused tension state that motivates an organism to satisfy the need
Drive reduction theory
A tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal state; the regulation of any aspect out of body chemistry, such as blood glucose, around a particular level
Homeostasis
Positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behavior
Incentive
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 psychological needs become active
Hierarchy of needs
The form of sugar that circulates in the blood and provides the major source of energy for body tissues. When is level is low with your hunger
Glucose
The point at which an individual’s weight thermostat is supposedly set. With the body falls below this week, and increase in hunger and lower metabolic rate may act to restore the lost weight
Set point
The body is resting rate of energy expenditure
Basal metabolic rate
Eating disorder in which a person diets and become significantly underweight yet still feeling fat continues to starve
Anorexia nervosa
Wearing his order characterized I have a surgeon over eating, usually of high calorie foods, followed by vomiting, laxative use, fasting, or excessive exercise
Bullimia nervosa
Significant binge eating episodes followed by stress discussed or guilt but without the compensatory purging fasting her excess of exercise and marks
Binge eating disorder
The four stages of sexual responding described by Masters and Johnson – excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution
Sexual response stage
Arresting. After orgasm, during which the man cannot achieve another orgasm
Refractory period
Text hormones, secreted in greater amounts by females than males and contributing to female sex characteristics
Estrogen
