The wants and needs that direct behavior toward a goal.
What is Motivation?
Chemical messages that travel to the brain and serve as a signal to initiate feeding behaviors.
What are Hunger Pangs?
Emotional and erotic attraction towards another person.
What is Sexual orientation?
A subjective state of being that we often describe as our feelings.
What is Emotion?
A pattern of behavior in which we regularly engage.
What is a Habit?
The amount of energy that is expended in a given period of time.
What is Metabolic Rate?
One's sense of being male or female.
What is Gender Identity?
Refers to a prolonged, less intense, affective state that does not occur in response to something we experience.
What is Mood?
Internal factors that are motivated by autonomy, mastery and purpose.
What is Intrinsic?
A type of surgery specifically aimed at weight reduction, and it involves modifying the gastrointestinal system to reduce the amount of food that can be eaten and/or limiting how much of the digested food can be absorbed
What is Bariatric Surgery?
Diagnosis describing people who do not identify as the gender that most people would assume they are.
What is Gender Dysphoria?
Measures the physiological arousal of an individual responding to a series of questions.
What is a Polygraph?
External factors that are motivated by compensation, punishment and reward.
What is Extrinsic?
Bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder and anorexia nervosa are all examples of what?
What is are Eating Disorders?
Author of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. Who began the study of human sexual behavior.
Who is Dr. Alfred Kinsey?
Emotions consist of two factors, physiological and cognitive.
What is the Schachter-Singer Two Factor Theory?
Deviations from homeostasis create physiological needs that result in psychological drive states that direct behavior to meet the need and ultimately bring the system back to homeostasis.
What is Drive Theory?
Viewing yourself as overweight even though you are not.
What is Distorted body image?
An individual who would be described as intersex or transgender in the United States.
What is a Kathoey?
The expression of emotion in terms of body position or movement.
What is Body Language?