Motivation And Emotion Flashcards
A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior
Motivation
A complex behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species and is unlearned
Instinct
The idea that a physiological need creates an aroused tension state (drive) 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 of body chemistry, such as blood glucose, around a particular level
Homeostasis
A 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 physiological 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
Glucose
The point at which an individual’s “weight thermostat” is supposedly set. When the body falls below this weight, and increase in hunger and a lowered metabolic rate may act to restore the lost weight
Set point
The bodies resting rate of energy expenditure
Basal metabolic rate
And eating disorder in which a person(usually an adolescent female) diets and become significantly underweight, yet, still feeling fat, continues to starve
Anorexia nervosa
And eating disorder characterized by episodes of over eating, usually of high-calorie foods, followed by vomiting, laxative use, fasting, or excessive exercise
Bulimia nervosa
Significant binge-eating episodes, followed by distress, discussed, or guilt, but without the compensatory purging, fasting, or excessive exercise that marks bulimia nervosa
Binge-eating disorder
Before stages of sexual responding described by Masters and Johnson – excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution
Sexual response cycle
A resting period after orgasm, during which a man cannot achieve another orgasm
Refractory period
Sec hormones, such as estradiol, secreted in greater amounts by females than by males and contributing to female sex characteristics. In non human female mammals, estrogen levels peak during ovulation, promoting sexual receptivity
Estrogens