AP Psych: Unit 7 - Motivation, Emotion, and Personality Questions with complete answers
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AP Psychology
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AP Psychology
a need or desire that energizes and directs behavior - motivation
a complex behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species and is
unlearned - instinct
a basic bodily requirement - physiological need
the idea that a physiological need creates an aroused tension state (a drive)
that mot...
AP Psych: Unit 7 - Motivation, Emotion,
and Personality Questions with complete
answers
a need or desire that energizes and directs behavior - ✔✔motivation
a complex behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species and is
unlearned - ✔✔instinct
a basic bodily requirement - ✔✔physiological need
the idea that a physiological need creates an aroused tension state (a drive)
that motivates an organism to satisfy the need - ✔✔drive reduction theory
a tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal or psychological state
- ✔✔homeostasis
a positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behavior -
✔✔incentive
the principle that performance increases with arousal only up to a point,
beyond which performance decreases - ✔✔Yerkes-Dodson Law
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 - ✔✔hierarchy of needs
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. -
✔✔glucose
, 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. - ✔✔set point
the body's resting rate of energy output - ✔✔basal metabolic rate
defined as a body mass index (BMI) measurement of 30 or higher
(overweight individuals have a BMI of 25 or higher) - ✔✔obesity
having no sexual attraction to others - ✔✔asexual
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 during the fetal period and the development of the male sex
characteristics during puberty - ✔✔testosterone
sex hormones, such as estradiol, secreted in greater amounts by females
than by males and contributing to female sex characteristics and are
secreted in greater amounts by females than by males; estrogen levels peak
during ovulation - ✔✔estrogens
the four stages of sexual responding described by masters and johnson-
excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution - ✔✔sexual response cycle
in human sexuality, a resting period that occurs after orgasm, during which a
person cannot achieve another orgasm - ✔✔refractory period
the need to build relationships and to feel part of a group - ✔✔affiliation
period
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