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AP Psychology Unit 8 Motivation,Emotion, & Stress (VOCAB) questions
with correct answers.
Motivation ANS - A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior.
Instinct ANS - A complex behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species and is unlearned.
Instinct Theory ANS - A view that explains human behavior as motivated by automatic, involuntary, and
unlearned responses.
Drive Reduction Theory ANS - The idea that a physiological need creates an aroused tension state (a
drive) that motivates an organism to satisfy the need.
NEED → DRIVE → DRIVE REDUCING BEHAVIOR
Homeostasis ANS - A tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal state.
Incentives ANS - A positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behavior.
Optimal Arousal Theory ANS - A theory of motivation stating that people are motivated to behave in
ways that maintain what is, for them, an optimal level of arousal.
Hierarchy of Needs ANS - Maslow's pyramid of human needs.
- physiological needs
- safety needs
- belongingness and love needs
- esteem needs
- self-actualization needs
, - self-transcendence needs
Glucose ANS - A sugar that is the major source of energy for the body's cells.
Set Point ANS - 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.
Basal Metabolic Rate ANS - The body's resting rate of energy expenditure.
Lateral Hypothalamus ANS - You'll eat even if you aren't hungry.
Ventromedial Hypothalamus ANS - You won't eat even if you are hungry.
Sexual Response Cycle ANS - The four stages of sexual responding described by Masters and Johnson.
- excitement (genital areas fill with blood)
- plateau (excitement peaks)
- orgasm (muscles contract all over; climax)
- resolution (back to unaroused state)
Refractory Period ANS - A resting period after orgasm, during which a man cannot achieve another
orgasm.
Sexual Dysfunctions ANS - Problems that consistently impair sexual arousal or functioning.
Paraphilia ANS - A sexual disorder in which the person's preferred method of sexual arousal and
fulfillment is through sexual behavior that is unusual or socially unacceptable.
Estrogens ANS - 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 peak
during ovulation, promoting sexual receptivity.
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