AP Unit 7 Vocab Review

A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior

• stress

• motivation

• instinct

• set point

A complex behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species and is unlearned

• homeostasis

• trait

• instinct

• emotion

A basic bodily requirement

• motivation

• physiological need

• incentive

• instinct

The idea that a physiological need creates an aroused state that motivates an organism to satisfy the need

• drive-reduction theory

• Yerkes-Dodson Law

• Hierarchy of Needs

• incentive

A tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal state

• polygraph

• set point

• homeostasis

• catharsis

A positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behavior

• tend-and-befriend response

• affiliation need

• achievement motivation

• incentive

Performance increases with arousal only up to a point, beyond which performance decreases

• Yerkes-Dodson Law

• Hierarchy of Needs

• Drive-reduction Theory

• set point

Maslow's pyramid of human needs, beginning with physiological that must first be met before higher level needs

• Cannon-Bard Theory

• James-Lange Theory

• Two-Factor Theory

• Hierarchy of Needs

Form of sugar that circulates in the blood and provides the major source of energy for body tissues

• glucose

• set point

• basal metabolic rate

• obesity

"weight thermostat"

• glucose

• set point

• basal metabolic rate

• obesity