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Chapter 8 Reading Quiz! Flashcards

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Motivation

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Need or desire energizes or directs behavior

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Instinct

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Unlearned; complex behavior with fixed pattern in species

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Drive-reduction theory

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A psychological need creates and aroused state driving the organism to reduce the need

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Tension state

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a drive

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Drive reduction theory

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An animal Drinking- due to thirst

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Homeostasis

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Maintenance of a steady internal state

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Incentive

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Positive or negative stimulus that motivates behavior

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Hierarchy of needs created by

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Abraham Maslow

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Hierarchy of needs

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Priority of needs organized

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Order or Hierarchy of needs

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Bottom to top:

  • Physiological needs
  • Safety needs
  • Belongingness and love needs
  • Esteem needs
  • Self-actualization needs
  • Self Transcendence needs
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Physiological needs

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To satisfy hunger and thirst

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Safety needs

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  • Love
  • Acceptance
  • Avoid loneliness/separation
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Esteem needs

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  • Achievement
  • Self esteem
  • Recognition
  • Respect
  • Independence
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Self-actualization

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Need to live up to our fulllest and unique potential

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Self-transcendence needs

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Find meaning & identity beyond self

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Glucose

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Form of sugar found in blood

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Glucose provides

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A major source of energy for body tissues

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Set point

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How body restores weight by becoming hungry and lowering metabolic rates

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Basal metabolic rate

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Bodys resting rate of energy spending

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anorexia nervosa

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Eating disorder in which an individual diets to be underweight and starves continuously

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bulimia nervosa

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Eating disorder characterized by overeating followed by vomiting, laxative use, fasting and excessive exercise

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Binge-eating disorder

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Significant episodes of overeating followed by distress, disgust or guilt

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Sexual response cycle

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Four stages of sexual responding

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Sexual responding described as

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Masters and Johnson

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Sexual response cycle includes

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Excitement, plateau, orgasm and resolution

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Refractory period

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Resting period after orgasm

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During a refractory period men

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cannot achieve another orgasm

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estrogens are

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sex hormones

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testosterone is higher in

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men

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tesosterone stimulates males

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growth of sex organs and developments during puberty

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emotion

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a response involivng physiological arousal, expressive behaviors and conscious experinece

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James-Lang theory

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Experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses responses to emotion-arousing stimuli

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Cannon-bard theory

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Emotion arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers physiological responses and the subjective experience of emotion

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two-factor theory or

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Schachter-Singer

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Two-factor theory

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To experience emotion one must be physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal

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Facial feedback

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The effect of facial expressions intensifying the feeling of happiness/anger

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Catharis

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emotional release of aggressive energy through action or fantasy relieves aggressive urges

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feel-good do-good phenomenon

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peoples tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood

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well-being

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self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with lifeq

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adaptation-level phenomenon

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our tendency to form judgments of sounds, light or income do to a neutral from prior experience

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relative deprivation

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the sense we are worse of than others whom we compare ourselves

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behavioral medicine

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Field integrating behavioral and medical knowledge and applied to knowledge of health and disease

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health psychology

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provides psychology’s contribution to behavioral medicine

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stress

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how we respond to certain events

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general adaptations syndrome (GAS)

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Concept of the body’s adaptive response tp stress

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three phases of general adaptations syndrome

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Alarm, resistance, exhaustion

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Coronary heart disease

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the clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart mucscle

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Coronary heart disease is

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The leading cause of death in North America

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Type A

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Competitive, Hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, anger-prone people

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Type B

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Easy going relaxed people

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Who came up with “Type A & Type B’?

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Friedman and Rosenman

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Psychophysiological illness

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mind-body illness

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Psychophysiological illness examples

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hypertension ann headicase

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Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI)

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Study of psychological, neural and endocrine processes affect immune system

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lymphocytes

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Two types of white blood cells, that are part of the immune system

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