Motivation and Emotion Crossword

A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior
A complex, unlearned behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species
The idea that a physiological need creates an aroused tension state (a drive) that motivates an organism to satisfy the need
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
A positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behavior
The principle that performance increases with arousal only up to a point, beyond which performance decreases
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
The form of sugar that circulates in the blood and provides the major source of energy for body tissues. When it's level is low, we feel hunger
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 lost weight
The body's resting rate of energy expenditure
The four stages of sexual responding described by Masters and Johnson-excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution
A resting period after orgasm, during which a man cannot achieve another orgasm
A problem that consistently impairs sexual arousal or functioning
Sex hormones, such as estradiol, secreted in greater amounts by females than by males and contributing to female sex characteristics
The most important of the male sex hormones
A response of the whole organism, involving physical arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience
The theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion arousing stimuli
The theory that an emotion arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers physiological responses and the subjective experience of emotion
The Schachter-Singer theory that to experience emotion one must be physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal
A machine, commonly used in attempts to detect lies, that measures several of the physiological responses (such as perspiration and cardiovascular and breathing changes) accompanying emotion
The tendency of facial muscle states to trigger corresponding feelings such as fear, anger, or happiness
A sub field of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine
The process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging
Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three phases-alarm,resistance, exhaustion
Under stress, people (especially women) often provide support to others (tend) and bond with and seek support from others (befriend).
Literally, "mind-body" illness; any stress-related physical illness, such as hypertension and some headaches
The two types of white blood cells that are part of the body's immune system