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What is the measure of weight that is often used for research on obesity?
Body Mass Index
Alfred Kinsey's research suggested what about homosexuality and heterosexuality?
They are on a continuum and many people fall somewhere in the middle.
The part of the brain that controls hunger.
What is the hypothalamus?
What do polygraph tests measure?
Levels of emotional arousal - not truth
This term describes who you're attracted to
What is sexual orientation
The need to master difficult challenges, outperform others, and meet high standards of excellence is referred to as
What is an Achievement Motivation?
This form of sugar circulate in the blood and provides the major source of energy for body tissues.
Glucose
Facial expressions
This term describes being motivated by 'external' factors
What is extrinsic motivation
Behavior is motivated by the desire to reduce internal tension caused by unmet biological needs.
What is Drive Theory?
This is the part of hunger that deals with food preferences, links different foods to special occasions, and memories
What is psychological
The societal norms that determine how much emotion is typically expressed in a particular society
Display rules
This theory says that arousal comes before the labeling of the emotion. We then label the emotion based on the body's exact physical response.
What is James-Lange Theory?
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.
What is homeostasis?
The test using ambiguous images often used to determine achievement and affiliation motives is known as?
The TAT - Thematic Apperception Test
What happened when Walter Cannon and A. L. Washburn stimulated stomach contractions?
The test subjects reported being hungry.
The ability to predict one's emotional reactions to future events
Affective forecasting
This theory says arousal and emotion occur simultaneously, because the amygdala both triggers bodily responses and conscious feelings.
What is the Cannon-Bard Theory of Emotion?
This is the average level at which an individualʼs “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.
Set Point
People are motivated to maintain a high level of interest that slowly declines throughout the day.
What is Optimal Arousal Theory?
What is the role of ghrelin in hunger regulation?
Increased hunger
A natural smile, known as a Duchenne smile, contains activation of muscles around the _______.
Eyes
This theory says that the body becomes aroused by a stimulus then the higher brain regions (the cerebrum) makes a determination of what to label based on the context. In this theory you use your brain to think about how you feel.
What is the Schachter-Singer two-factor theory?