Form of sugar that circulates in the blood and provides the major source of energy for body tissues. Without it, we feel hungry.

A need or desire that energizes behavior and directs it towards a goal.

A complex behavior that must have a fixed pattern throughout a species and be unlearned.

Drive-Reduction Theory

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

Maintenance of a steady internal state.

Positive or negative stimuli that lure or repel humans

Maslow's pyramid of human needs. It begins with physiological needs, then safety needs, belongingness and love needs, esteem needs, self-actualization needs, and self-transcendence needs

Point at which an individual's weight thermostat is supposedly set. When below this weight, an increase in hunger and a lowered metabolic rate may act to restore the lost weight.

The body's resting rate of energy expenditure.

Eating disorder in which a person diets and becomes significantly underweight (15 percent and above) yet still continues to feel fat and continues to starve.

Binge Eating Disorder

Significant binge-eating episodes followed by distress, disgust, or guilt but without the compensatory purging, fasting, or excessive exercise that marks bulimia nervosa.

Sexual Response Cycle

The four stages of sexual response described by masters and Johnson: excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution.

Resting period after orgasm during which a man cannot achieve another orgasm.

Sex hormones secreted in greater amounts by females than males; peak during ovulation promoting sexual receptivity.

Most important male sex hormone. Both sexes have it but additional levels in males stimulates growth of male sex organs in fetus and development of male sex characteristics during puberty.

Enduring sexual attraction toward members of either one's own sex or the other sex (homosexual or heterosexual respectively).

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Unit 8a Motivation

Question	Answer
Glucose	Form of sugar that circulates in the blood and provides the major source of energy for body tissues. Without it, we feel hungry.
Motivation	A need or desire that energizes behavior and directs it towards a goal.
Instinct	A complex behavior that must have a fixed pattern throughout a species and be unlearned.
Drive-Reduction Theory	The idea that a physiological need creates an aroused state that motivates the organism to satisfy the need.
Homeostasis	Maintenance of a steady internal state.
Incentive	Positive or negative stimuli that lure or repel humans
Hierarchy of Needs	Maslow's pyramid of human needs. It begins with physiological needs, then safety needs, belongingness and love needs, esteem needs, self-actualization needs, and self-transcendence needs
Set Point	Point at which an individual's weight thermostat is supposedly set. When below this weight, an increase in hunger and a lowered metabolic rate may act to restore the lost weight.
Basal Metabolic Rate	The body's resting rate of energy expenditure.
Anorexia Nervosa	Eating disorder in which a person diets and becomes significantly underweight (15 percent and above) yet still continues to feel fat and continues to starve.
Binge Eating Disorder	Significant binge-eating episodes followed by distress, disgust, or guilt but without the compensatory purging, fasting, or excessive exercise that marks bulimia nervosa.
Sexual Response Cycle	The four stages of sexual response described by masters and Johnson: excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution.
Refractory Period	Resting period after orgasm during which a man cannot achieve another orgasm.
Estrogen	Sex hormones secreted in greater amounts by females than males; peak during ovulation promoting sexual receptivity.
Testosterone	Most important male sex hormone. Both sexes have it but additional levels in males stimulates growth of male sex organs in fetus and development of male sex characteristics during puberty.
Sexual Orientation	Enduring sexual attraction toward members of either one's own sex or the other sex (homosexual or heterosexual respectively).

Created by: AP Psychology 2011

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