Chapter 8 Flashcards
Motivation
Need or desire that energizes and directs behaivour
Instinct
Behavior that is patterned throughout a species and is unlearned
Drive reduction theory
Idea that physiological need creates a drive that motivates the satisfy of need
Homeostasis
Balance a internal state ie: regulating blood glucose levels
Incentive
Positive/negative stimulus that motivates behavior
Hierarchy of needs
Maslow’s in least to greatestphysiological needs must be met before higher safety needs
Glucose
Form of sugar that through the bloodstream provides energy to tissues
Set point
When the body falls below this ‘weight’ increase in hunger to make up for lost weight
Basal metabolic rate
Resting rate of energy expenditure
Anorexia nervosa
A person diets and becomes underweight yet still feeling fat
Bulimia nervosa
Overeating followed by vomiting, fasting
Binge-eating disorder
episodes of bing eating followed by distress/guilt but without the implications of bulimia
Sexual response cycle
4 stages of sexual responding
- Excitement
- Plateau
- Orgasm
- Resolution
Refractory period
Resting period after orgasm when a man cannot achieve another one
Estrogen
sex hormones mainly apparent in females
Testosterone
Important male sex hormone
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Emotion
Response expressive behavior physiological arousal and conscious experience
James- Lange theory
Experience of emotion is being aware of physiological responses to emotion arousing stimuli
Cannon- Bard theory
Emotion arousing stimuli trigger physiological responses and subjective experience of emotion
Two- factor theory aka Schachter- Singer
To experience emotion one must be physically aroused and cognitively label arousel
Polygraph
Lie detector machine by measuring physiological responses accompanying emotion
Facial feedback
Effect of facial expressions on emotions
Catharsis
Emotional release usually from anger
feel good do good
peoples tendency to be helpful when in a good mood
Well-being
Self perceived happiness with life.
Adaptation level phenomenom
Tendency to form judgments relative to a neutral level
Relative deprivation
Perception that we are worse off in relation to others whom we compare ourselves to
Behavioral medicine
Integrates behavioral and medical knowledge
Stress
Perceive and respond to certain events called stressors
General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)
Selye’s concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress (Alarm, resistance, exhaustion
Type A
competitive anger prone
Type B
easygoing, relaxed
