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Chapter 11
Motivation
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
02/01/2012

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Insulin
Definition
Increase in this hormone diminish blood glucose
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Lateral hypothalamus
Definition
associated with hunger recognition, when stimulated animals will begin to eat. If this is destroyed they will lose all appetite. Measures hunger
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Ventromedial Hypothalamus
Definition
when this is stimulated animals will stop eating, when destroyed they will over eat. Measures fullness
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Orexin
Definition
Hypothalamus secretes this when it's hungry. Cause you to eat
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ghreline
Definition
Hunger arousing hormone secreted from an empty stomach
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Basal metabolic rate
Definition
rate of energy expenditure in maintaining basic functions when the body is at rest
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Neuropsychological correlations with sexuality
Definition
Hypothalamus differences, relative hemisphere size
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Intragenomic Conflict
Definition
DNA in cytoplasm is only passed through eggs therefore boys are a dead end. Solution for cytoplasmic DNA is to kill boy embryos, get better with more practice (brothers). The solution is for nuclear DNA to keep gender undetectable (make males less different from females) this is why the younger brothers are more likely to be gay
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Organizational Psychology
Definition
Creates engagement, nurtures strengths, sets goals
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Personnel Psychology
Definition
believe that interviews suck and are unreliable, choose which employees to hire
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Obestatin, PYY, and leptin
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all reduce hunger
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