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| a complex behavior that is rigidly patterened througout a species and is unlearned |
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| a need or desire that energizes and directs behavior |
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| the idea that a physiological need creates an aroused tension state that motivates an organism to satisfy the need |
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| a tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal state |
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| a positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behavior |
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| the form of sugar that circulates in the blood and provides major source of energy for body tissues. when its low, we feel hunger |
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| 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 weight |
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| the body's resting rate of energy expenditure |
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| an eating disorder in which a person diets and becomes significantly (15% or more) underweight, but still feels fate and continues to starve. |
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| an eating disorder characterized by overeating, usually of high-calorie foods, followed by vomiting, laxative use, fasting, or excessive excersize |
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| significant binge-eating episodes, followed by distress, disgust or guilt, but without the compensatory purging, fasting, or excessive exercise that marks bulimia |
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| four stages of sexual responding as describes by Master & Johnson-- excitement, plateau, orgasm, & resolution |
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| a resting period after orgasm, during which a man cannot achieve another orgasm |
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| a problem that consistently impairs sexual arousal or functioning |
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| an enduring sexual attraction toward members of either one's own sex or other sex |
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| a completely involved, focused state of consciousness, with diminished awareness of self and time, resulting from optimal engagement of one's skills. |
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| the application of psych concepts and methods to optimizing human behaviors in the workplace |
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| a subfield of I/O psych that focuses on employee recruitment, selection, placement, training, appraisal, and development |
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| a subfield of I/O psych that examines organizational influences on worker satisfaction and productivity and facilitates change |
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| interview process that asks the same job-relevant questions of all applicants, each of whom is rated on established skills |
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| a desire for significant accomplishment |
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| goal-oriented leadership that sets standards, organizes work, and focuses attention on goals |
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| group-oriented leadership that builds teamwork, mediates conflict, and offers support |
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| a response of the whole organism involving physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, & conscious experience |
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| the theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli |
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| the theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers physiological response and the subjective experience of emotion |
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| the Schachter-Singer theory that to experience emotion one must be physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal |
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| feel-good, do-good phenomenon |
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| people's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood |
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| self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life |
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| adaptation-level phenomenon |
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| our tendency to form judgements relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience |
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| the perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself |
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| an interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease |
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| a subfield of psych that provides psych contribution to behavioral med |
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| the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events (stressors) that we perceive as threatening |
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| general adaptation syndrome |
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| Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three phases-- alarm, resistance, exhaustion |
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| the clogging of the vessels that nourish the h |
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| the clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle |
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| Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people |
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| Friedman's and Rosenman's term for easy going, relaxed people |
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| mind-body illness; any stress related physical illness |
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| psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) |
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| the study of how psychological, neuural and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health |
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| the two types of white blood cells that are part of the immune system: B lymphocytes and T lymphocytes |
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| Form the bone marrow and release antibodies that fight bacterial infections |
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| form in the thymus and other lymphatic tissue and attack cancer cells, viruses and foreign substances |
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| alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive or behavioral methods |
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| attempting to alleviate stress directly by changing the stressor or the way we interact with it |
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| attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to ones stress reaction |
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| sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness |
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| a system for electronically recording, amplifying, and feeding back information regarding a subtle physiological state |
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| Complimentary and alternative meds (CAM) |
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| as yet unproven health care treatment intended to supplement or serve as alternatives to conventional medicine |
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| an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking , feeling and acting |
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| in psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxed and says whatever comes to mind |
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| freud's theory of personalty that attributed thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts |
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| a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings and memories |
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| contains a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives |
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| the largely conscious, "executive" part of personality that mediates among the demands of id, superego and reality |
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| the part of the personality that represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgement and for the future |
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| the childhood stages of development (oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital) during which the id's pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones (pleasure seeking areas of body) |
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| a boy's sexual desire toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father |
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| the process by which children incorporate their parents' values into their developing superegos |
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| a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved |
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| the ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality |
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| the basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness |
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| defense mechanism in which an individual faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage |
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| consciously makes unacceptable impulses look like their opposites |
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| disguising the impulses by attributing them to others |
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| self-justifying your actions |
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| shifts sexual or aggressive behavior to make it acceptable |
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| rejecting a fact or its seriousness |
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| Carl Jung's concept of a shared, inherited reservoir or memory traces from our species' history |
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| A personality test, such as Rorschach or TAT, that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one's inner thoughts |
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| Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) |
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| a projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes |
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| the most widely used projective test; seeks to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots |
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| a theory of death-related anxiety; explores people's behavioral responses to reminders of their impending death |
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