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| A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior |
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| A complex behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species and is unlearned |
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| The idea that a physiological need creates an aroused tension state (a drive) that motivates an organism to satisy the need |
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| A tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal state; the regulation of any aspect of body chemistry, such as blood glucose, around a particular level |
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| A positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behavior |
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| The principle that performance increases with arousal only up to a point, beyond which performance decreases |
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| 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 |
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| The form of sugar that circulates in the blood and provide the major source of energy for body tissues. When it's level is low, we feel hunger. |
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| The point at which your "weight thermostat" is supposedly set. When your body falls below this weight, increased hunger and a lowered metabolic rate may combine to restore the lost weight. |
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| The body's resting rate of energy expenditure |
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| A desire for significant accomplishment, for mastery of skills or ideas, for control, and for rapidly attaining a high standard |
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| A response of the whole organism, involving (1) Physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) 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 (1) physological responses and (2) the subjective experience of emotion |
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| The Schacter-Singer theory that to experience emotion one must (1) be physically aroused and (2) cognitively label the arousal |
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| Zajonc; LeDoux Emotion Theory |
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| Some embodied responsed happen instantly, without concious appraisal |
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| Cognitive appraisal ("is it dangerous or not?")-sometimes without our awareness-defines emotion |
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| A machine, commonly used in attempts to detect lies, that measures several of physiological responses (such as perspiration and cardiovascular and breathing changes) accompanying emotion |
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| The tendency of facial muscle states to trigger corresponding feelings, such as fear, anger, or happiness |
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