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| goal directed behavior (push) |
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| a state of physiological equilibrium or stability |
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| internal state of tension the motivates an organism to engage in activities that reduce the tension |
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| an external goal that has the capacity to motivate behavior (pull) |
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| hunger theories focus on...(3) |
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| role or the brain, blood sugar level, and hormones |
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| a lesioned lateral hypothalamus leads to... |
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| lowered interest in eating |
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| a lesioned ventromedial nucleus leads to... |
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| two other areas of the hypothalamus that play a role in eating are... |
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| the arcuate nucleus and the paraventricular nucleus |
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| contemporary theories of hunger focus on... |
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| neural circuts that pass through areas of the hypothalamus as opposed to anotomical centers. |
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| neruotransmitters involved in hunger (5) |
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| neuropeptide Y, serotonin, GABA, ghrelin, and orexins |
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| fluctuations in blood glucose levels are monitored in the brain by glucostats. |
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| neurons sensitive to glucose in surrounding fluid. |
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| hormone in hunger. must be present for cells to extract glucose from the blood. |
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| hormone in hunger. contributes to longterm regulation of hunger. (levels are high hunger diminishes) |
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| variables that play a role in food consumption (3) |
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| palatability, quantity available, variety |
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| weight divided by height squared. |
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| the body monitors fatcell levels to keep them (and weight) fairly stable |
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| weight tends to drift around the level at which the constellation of factors that determine food consumption and energy expidenture achieve and equilibrium. |
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| engorgement of blood vessels |
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| the time following an orgasm during which males are largely unresponsive to further stimulation. |
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| the need to master difficult challenges to outperform others, and to meet high standards of excellence. |
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| test that requires subjects to respond to vague stimuli in a way that may reveal personal motives and traits. |
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| tendency to pursue achievement depend on....(3) |
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| motivation to achieve, probability of success, and incentive value |
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| involves 1-a subjective conscious experience(cognitive component) 2- bodily arousal (bio component) 3- characteristic overt expressions (behavioral) |
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| sympathetic(fof) and parasympathetic (slow down after) responses. |
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| galvanic skin response (GSR) |
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| increase in electrical conductivity of the skin that occurs when sweat glands increase their activity. |
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| processing of pain related emotional distress. |
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| mesolimbic dopamine pathway |
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| plays a role in the experience of pleasurable emotions. |
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| six fundamental emotions: |
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| happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, and disgust. |
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| facial feedback hypothesis |
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| asserts that facial muscles send signals to the brain and that these signals help the brain recognize the emotion that one it experiencing. |
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| norms that regulate the appropriate expression of emotions. |
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| james lange theory of emotion |
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| different patterns of autonomic activation lead to the experience of different emotions |
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| different emotions are accompanied by somewhat different patterns of autonomic activation. |
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| cannon-bard theory of emotion |
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| emotion occurs when the thalamus sends signals to the cortex and the autonomic nervous system at the same time |
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| schachters two-factory theory of emotion |
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| depends on autonomic arousal and cognitive interpretation of that arousal.. When you experience visceral arousal you search your environment for an explanation. |
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| evolutionary theories of emotion |
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| consider emotions to be largely innate reactions to certain stimuli. |
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| efforts to predict ones emotional reactions to future events. |
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| efforts to predict ones emotional reactions to future events. |
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| mental scale that people use to judge the pleasantness of their experiences shifts so that their neutral point changes. |
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| peripheral vasoconstriction |
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| when its cold, blood goes to core to preserve temp. |
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| ventral medial hypothalamus |
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| amount of fat stored is what is set in the set point theory |
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