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

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

<p>Maslow's pyramid of human needs, beginning at the base with physiological needs that must be satisfied before higher-level needs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The form of sugar that circulates in the blood and provides the major source of energy for body tissues.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>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.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A psychological disorder characterized by somatic delusions that you are too fat despite being emaciated.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An eating disorder characterized by episodes of overeating, usually of high-calorie foods, followed by vomiting, laxative use, fasting, or excessive exercise.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An eating disorder in which a person repeatedly eats large amounts of food at one time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The four stages of sexual responding described by Masters and Johnson: excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Resting time that occurs in both neuron firing and in human sexual response.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They stimulate uterine lining growth and the development and maintenance of female secondary sex characteristics.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The most important of the male sex hormones that stimulates the growth of male sex organs in the fetus and the development of male sex characteristics during puberty.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An enduring sexual attraction toward members of either one's own sex (homosexual orientation) or the other sex (heterosexual orientation).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>All of the above</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It states that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers both physiological responses and the subjective experience of emotion.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Schachter's theory that to experience emotion, one must be physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A machine commonly used in attempts to detect lies, measuring several physiological responses accompanying emotion.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A theory of emotion that assumes facial expressions provide feedback to the brain concerning the emotion being experienced, which in turn causes and intensifies emotion.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Purging of emotional tensions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>People's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A positive state that includes striving for optimal health.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Our tendency to form judgments relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A subfield of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A state of mental or emotional strain or suspense.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Seyle's concept that the body responds to stress with alarm, resistance, and exhaustion.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in many developed countries.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Friedman and Rosenman's term for easygoing, relaxed people.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Literally, 'mind-body' illness; any stress-related physical illness, such as hypertension and some headaches.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The study of how psycho, neural, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The two types of white blood cells that are part of the body's immune system.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Metabolic equilibrium actively maintained by several complex biological mechanisms that operate via the autonomic nervous system to offset disrupting changes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A psychologist known for his work on self, social rejection, self-esteem, self-control, aggression, and the concept of ego depletion.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He believed that gastric activity, as in an empty stomach, was the sole basis for hunger.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Humanistic psychology and the hierarchy of needs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He was best known as the senior member of the Masters and Johnson sexuality research team, pioneering research into human sexual response.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He inflated a balloon in his stomach, monitored stomach contractions, and found hunger was felt when contractions occurred.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He studied happiness and created a questionnaire that measured happiness.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He found that facial expressions are universal and play a vital role in emotion.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The founder of functionalism who studied how humans use perception to function in our environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The cognitive-medical theory of emotions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Some emotional reactions involve no deliberate thinking, and cognition is not always necessary for emotion.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A social psychologist focused on nonverbal communication and self-fulfilling prophecies; he studied the Pygmalion Effect.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He stated that in order to experience emotions, a person must be physically aroused and know the emotion before experiencing it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He developed the concept of general adaptation syndrome related to the fight or flight response.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He believed that we invent explanations to label feelings.</p> Signup and view all the answers