Unit 8

Question 1

A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior

Answer 1

Motivation

Question 2

A complex, unlearned behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species.

Answer 2

Instinct

Question 3

The idea that a physiological need creates an aroused tension state (a drive) that motivates an organism to satisfy the need.

Answer 3

Drive-Reduction Theory

Question 4

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.

Answer 4

Homeostasis

Question 5

A positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behaviors.

Answer 5

Incentive

Question 6

The principle that performance increases with arousal only up to a point, beyond which performance decreases.

Answer 6

Yerkes-Dodson Law

Question 7

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.

Answer 7

Hierarchy of Needs

Question 8

The form of sugar that circulates in the blood and provides the major source of energy for body tissues. When its level is low, we feel hunger.

Answer 8

Glucose

Question 9

The point at which an individual’s “weight thermostat” is supposedly set. When the body falls below this weight, an increase in hunger and a lowered metabolic rate may act to restore the lost weight.

Answer 9

Set Point

Question 10

The body’s resting rate of energy expenditure.

Answer 10

Basal Metabolic Rate

Question 11

The four stages of sexual responding described by Masters and Johnson - excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution.

Answer 11

Sexual Response Cycle

Question 12

A resting period after orgasm, during which a man cannot achieve another orgasm.

Answer 12

Refractory Period

Question 13

A problem that consistently impairs sexual arousal or functioning.

Answer 13

Sexual Dysfunction

Question 14

Sex hormones, such as estradiol, secreted in greater amounts by females than by males and contributing to female sex characteristics. In nonhuman female mammals, estrogen levels peaks during ovulation, promoting sexual receptivity.

Answer 14

Estrogen

Question 15

The most important of the male sex hormones. Both males and females have it, but the additional testosterone in males stimulates the growth of the male sex organs in the fetus and the development of the male sex characteristics during puberty.

Answer 15

Testosterone

Question 16

A response of the whole organism, involving (1) physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience.

Answer 16

Emotion

Question 17

The theory that our experience of emotions is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli .

Answer 17

James-Lange Theory

Question 18

The theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experience of emotion.

Answer 18

Cannon-Bard Theory

Question 19

The Schachter-Singer theory that to experience emotion one must (1) be physically aroused (2) cognitively label the arousal.

Answer 19

Two-Factor Theory

Question 20

A sub-field of psychology that provides psychology’s contribution to behavioral medicine.

Answer 20

Health Psychology

Question 21

The tendency of facial muscles states to trigger corresponding feelings such as fear, anger, or happiness.

Answer 21

Facial Feedback Effect

Question 22

The process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging.

Answer 22

Stress

Question 23

Selye’s concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress in three phases - alarm, resistance, exhaustion.

Answer 23

General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)

Question 24

Under stress; people (especially women) often provide support to others (tend) and bond with and seek support from others (befriend).

Answer 24

Tend-and-Befriend Response

Question 25

Literally, “mind-body” illness; any stress-related physical illness, such as hypertension and some headaches.

Answer 25

Psychophysiological Illness

Question 26

The study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health.

Answer 26

Psychoneuroimmunology

Question 27

The two types of white blood cells that are part of the body’s immune system: B lymphocytes form in the bone marrow and release antibodies that fight bacterial infections; T lymphocytes form in the thymus and other lymphatic tissue and attack caner cells, viruses, and foreign substance.

Answer 27

Lymphocytes

Question 28

The clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in many developed countries.

Answer 28

Coronary Heart Disease

Question 29

Friedman and Rosenman’s term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people.

Answer 29

Type A

Question 30

Friedman and Rosenman’s term for easygoing, relaxed people.

Answer 30

Type B

Question 31

A machine, commonly used in attempts to detect lies, that measures several of the physiological responses (such as perspiration and cardiovascular and breathing changes) accompanying emotion.

Answer 31

Polygraph