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| A need or desire that energizes and direct behavior |
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| A complex behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species and unlearned. |
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| The idea that a psychological need creates an aroused tension state. |
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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 affects behavior. |
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| Maslow's pyramid of human needs, beginning with physiological needs such as hunger and thirst at the base in order to move on to other higher level needs. |
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| The form of sugar that circulates in the blood and provides the major source of energy for body tissues. |
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| The point at which an individuals "weight thermometer" is set at. Affects metabolic rate when actual weight is higher or lower. |
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| The body's resting rate of energy expiditure. |
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| An eating disorder in which a normal weighted person goes on a diet and becomes significantly underweight, yet still percieves themselves as fat. |
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| Eating disorder characterized by overeating high calorie foods and then vomiting or getting it out of the body quickly. |
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| 4 stages of sexual response: excrement, plateau, orgasm, resolution |
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| Resting period after an orgasm in which a man cannot do it again. |
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| A problem that consistently impairs sexual arousal or functioning. |
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| Sex hormone found primarily in females. |
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| An enduring sexual attraction toward members of either ones own sex or the opposite one. |
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| A completely involved, focused state of consciousness, in which an individuals skills skyrocket. |
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| Application of psychological principles, concepts, and methods in the workplace. |
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| A Subform of I/O, that focues on employee recruiting, training, apprasial, selection, placement, and development. |
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| Organizational Psychology |
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| Subfield of I/O that focuses on work satisfaction and productivity. |
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| Interview process that asks the same questions to all job applicants, which are then established and scaled. |
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| A desire for significan acomplishment. |
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| Goal oriented leadership that sets standards and focuses on goals. |
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| Group oriented leadership that builds teamwork, mediates conflict, and offers support. |
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| Assumes that workers are basically lazy, error prone, and extrinsically motivated by money, making them work best as being led from above. |
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| Assumes that, given challenges and freedom, workers are more motivated and therefore get more done in less time. |
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