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| 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 (a drive) that motivates an organism to satisfy a need | Drive-Reduction Theory |
| A tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal state; the regulation of any aspect of body chemistry 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 | Set Point |
| the body's resting rate of energy expenditure | Basal Metabolic Rate |
| An eating disorder in which a person diets and becomes significantly underweight, yet, still feeling fat, continues to starve | Anorexia Nervosa |
| An eating disorder characterized by episodes of overeating, usually of high-calorie foods, followed by vomiting, laxative use, fasting, or excessive exercise | Bulimia Nervosa |
| Significant binge-eating episodes, followed by distress, disgust, or guilt, but without the compensatory purging, fasting, or excessive exercise that marks bulimia nervosa | Binge-Eating Disorder |
| A resting period after orgasm, during which a man cannot achieve another orgasm | Refractory Period |
| A problem that consistently impairs sexual arousal or functioning | Sexual Disorder |
| Sex hormones secreted in greater amounts by females than by males and contributing to female characteristics | Estrogens |
| The most important of the male sex hormones | Testosterone |
| An enduring attraction toward members of either one's own sex or the other sex | Sexual Orientation |
| A completely involved, focused state of consciousness | Flow |
| The application of psychological concepts and methods to optimizing human behavior in work places | Industrial-Organizational Psychology |
| A subfield of I/O psychology that examines organizational influences on worker satisfaction | Organizational Psychology |
| Interview process that asks the same job-relevant questions of all applicants | Structured Interviews |
| Controls body chemistry; controls hunger | Hypothalamus |
| When stimulated causes animals to eat | Lateral Hypothalamus |
| When stimulated causes an animal to stop eating | Ventromedial Hypothalamus |
| People are motivated to eat by hunger | Internals |
| People are motivated to eat by attractiveness of food | Externals |
| Learned taste aversions | Garcia Effect |
| Genital areas engorge with blood; body becomes excited | Initial Excitement |
| Heart rate and breathing increase, genitals secrete fluids | Plateau Phase |
| Genitals contract, ejaculation, | Orgasm |
| Measures arousal responses that accompany emotion | Polygraph Machine |
| Happiness is relative to comparison with others | Relative Depravation Theory |
| Adapting to circumstances | Adaptation Level Theory |
| Measures stress using Life-Changing Units | Social Readjustment Rating Scale |
| People who are more likely to have stress-related disorders | People with high stress scores |
| Even these can cause stress | Positive Life Changes |
| Describes the general response animals have to a stressful event | General Adaptation Syndrome |
| Heart Rate increases, sympathetic nervous system kicks in | Alarm Reaction |
| Body is on high alert, hormones released to maintain state of readiness | Resistance |
| Parasympathetic returns body to normal | Exhaustion |
| A perceived lack of control over events increases the amount of stress | Perceived Control |
| The ability to gather and use information in productive ways | Intelligence |
| Assess a person's mental abilities and compare them with the abilities of others by means of a numerical score | Intelligence Tests |
| French, came up with a test to identify kids with special needs | Alfred Binet (Stanford-Binet Test) |
| Test computed IQ; revises Binet's test, names it Stanford-Binet | Louis Terman |
| Developed IQ test for adults, kids, and pre-schoolers; tested on a number of subscales | David Weschler |
| Argued that intelligence can be tested by using only the G factor | Charles Spearman |
| Said intelligence is comprised of 8 main abilities | L.L. Thurstone |
| Said there are over 100 mental abilities | J.P. Guilford |
| Supports multiple intelligences, each independent of the others | Howard Gardner |
| Gardner's Intelligences | Linguistic, Logical/math, spatial, musical, kinesthetic, intrapersonal, interpersonal |
| Developed EQ (emotional quotient) | Daniel Goleman |
| Developed triarchic theory | Robert Sternberg |
| Three Intelligences of Triarchic theory | Componential/Analytical, Experiential/Creative Intel, Contextual/Practical Intel |
