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| involves drive-->Instrumental response-->Incentive--> Drive reduction |
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| a physiological or psychological state where behavior is activated and directed (example: hunger) |
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| behavior that leads to reduction of the drive (going to the refrigerator) |
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| structure assoc with motivation linked to hunger, thirst and sex |
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| considered the eating center in that, when it is electrically, we begin eating. (if this area is destroyed animal may well fail to eat |
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| ventromedial hypothalamus |
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| the satiation (full) center (signaling that we have had enough to eat) If it is destroyed, a person may keep eating and eating until they become very obese. |
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decreases your needs for sweets
increases body's energy expenditure by releasing more adrenalin |
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| found that overweight people are more affected by the sight and smell of food than average weight people or thin people. Also, overweight people are more likely to eat by the clock (average weight people are more likely to eat when they are hungry) |
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| Upper middle and upper socioeconomic class US people |
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| much more likely to be then than obese in fact anorexia is more common in upper middle and upper class people. This is bulimia true of bulimia also. |
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most common one-
(genes may contribute to it obese people often had more fat cells as children and find, thus, that their metabolism slow and that is it harder to keep weight down) also, keep in mind the “opponent process theory” which involves the notion that there are opposing more processes at work. So that when an overweight person loses weight thru dieting, he will ultimately often go below his “set point” and when this happens his metabolism will slow down and he will lose weight more slowly ( If a thin person is trying to gain weight and goes above his “set point” , his metabolism will increase as a way of keeping his weight down). |
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| is significantly more common than anorexia. It involves a binge-purge cycle where person may consume 1000s of calories within a 2 hour or less time period. This is followed by purging most often thru self-imposed vomiting but also ( or instead) maybe thru suppository, laxatives |
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a) Involves a loss of body weight so that person ( not due to illness) loses enough weight so that she is 15% or more below her appropriate body weight.
b) distortion of one's body image and of perception of one's body is 1 symptoms (thus, she may be razor thin but see herself as obese.)
c) there is a restricting type of anorexia where weight loss is due to self-starvation (restriction of food). Yet there is a binge-purge type where person will binge typically less than bulimic person does but then get rid of their food thru vomiting, laxatives, suppositories. (In order to be anorexic person must be is 15% or more below appropriate weight – to be within 10% of appropriate body weight) |
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in which sexual arousal begins to occur there is somewhat of an increase in heart rate and blood pressure. Muscular tension is present thru out much of the body
in males, erection and elevation of the scrotal sac (which contain the testes) occurs In women there is a the beginning of vaginal lubrication |
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| the level of sexual tensions increase hear rate and blood pressure increase still further testes enlarge rapid breathing beings |
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| it is at these moments that heart rate, blood pressure and breathing rate are at their maximum. |
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| transsexual ( or transgender) |
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| When a person's gender identity does not agree with his or her physical sex, we say that the person is a |
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| increase his sexual desire for men not women. |
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| For a homosexual male, giving him supplemental doses of testosterone (the male hormone) will |
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| Discovered that a cluster of neural cells (brain nerve cells) located in the hypothalamus was smaller in homosexual men than heterosexual men. Up-to-date research suggests that family dynamics (how a child is raised by parents) has little or nothing to do with whether a person will be homosexual. |
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| involves sexual behavior between 1st degree relatives who are not husband and wife (such as mother-son, father-daughter, step father-step daughter |
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A Mother incest is quite uncommon
B Brother sister incest is the most common form of all the ones above
C (looking at percentages within a group step father- step daughter incest I more common than father-daughter incest
D The most destructive form of incest is between father and daughter (step father -step daughter) It is the one most indicative of family chaos and disorganization |
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| a stress-producing agent (disease,parental beatings, etc) |
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| is any thing that places inordinate demands (physically, socially or psychologically ) on the body |
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| general adaptation syndrome |
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| a theory developed by hans selye it has 3 stages which are Alarm reaction,Resistance,Exhaustion |
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| when stress occurs for a sufficiently lengthy time period, our sympathetic nervous system supplies (ACTH, Adrenaline etc) get all used up and then a dramatic counter reaction happens in that there is parasympathetic nervous system |
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| where the body begins to become prepared to fight off or flee from stress heart rate +blood pressure begin to increase, etc. |
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heart rate, blood pressure etc increase further. The body release ACTH (adrenocorticotropic hormone) until the body is at maximally able to deal with stress. Our sympathetic nervous system thus shows increases its activity (it kicks in during emergency where we need extra strength)
thus heart rate, blood pressure increase, pupils dilate, digestion slows as blood slows as blood travels from stomach to arms and legs |
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| The body's response to danger is triggered by the release of _________ by the adrenal gland |
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| Seligman's theory of learned helplessness, |
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| they give up and act helpless because they have no control over what happens to them (example no matter how much you study , you flunk your psych tests, eventually, you will give up trying to pass) |
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| Rotter's locus of control theory |
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| “internals” believe that their own actions determine what happens (if I get an A it is b/c I worked hard for it) but “externals” believe that chance, fate and outside forces (God, the stars, pee wee) determine your date. Learned helplessness may well lead to adopting an external locus of control (believing that you can't control what happens to you and that whatever happens, fate will determine the outcome |
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