The Hungry Animal: Motives to Eat Flashcards
Define: motivation
an inferred process within a person or animal that causes movement…
- toward a goal
- away from an undesirable situation
Define: intrinsic motivation
-pursuit of an activity for its own sake
Define: extrinsic motivation
-pursuit of an activity for external rewards
Fat people are ________ emotionally disturbed than average-weight people.
-no more or no less
Define: set-point
- genetically influence weight range for an individual
- maintained by biological mechanisms that regulate food intake, metabolism, fat reserves
Everyone has a genetically programmed ____________.
-basal metabolic rate
Define: basal metabolic rate
- rate at which body burns calories for energy
- and a fixed number of fat cells
Define: fat cells
- store fat for energy
- can change in size
Obese people have _____ fat cells than those with normal weight, and they are…
- twice
- bigger
When you lose weight, fat cells _____.
-get thinner
Interaction of ______, ________, and ________ keep people at the weight they are designed to be.
- fat cells
- metabolism
- hormones
When a heavy person diets, metabolism _____. When a thin person overeats, metabolism _______.
- slows down
- speeds up
Genes determine how much ________ a person has in addition to usual white fat.
-brown fat
Define: brown fat
- an energy-burning type of fat
- seems important in regulating body weight and blood sugar
_____ helps regulate body weight by strengthening neural circuits in the ________ that reduce appetite, and weakening circuits that _________ it.
- leptin
- hypothalamus
- stimulate
