5 Steps to a 5 AP Psychology, 2014-2015 Edition

reducesthe need by satisfying our hunger or quenching our thirst, and our body returns to its state of homeostasis. Homeostasisi ...

Physiological Motives Hunger Why do you eat? You eat when you feel hungry because your stomach is contracting or your blood suga ...

is inhibited and the pancreas secretes the hormone glucagon. Glucagon increases the blood glucose level by stimulating rapid con ...

more, our weight goes up and our fat cells increase in size, which seems to result in increased metabolism and decreased hunger. ...

hormones, such as testosterone, and estrogen, as well as small amounts of testosterone, in females. Secretion of hormones by the ...

dents high in this need attribute success to their own ability, and attribute failure to lack of effort. Some people fear succes ...

positive/negative quality. The greater the arousal, the more intense the emotion. Fear, anger, happiness, sadness, surprise, and ...

experience the first emotion on repeated occasions, the opposing emotion becomes stronger and the first emotion becomes weaker, ...

death of a spouse receives the highest number of points at 100 and getting married receives 50. According to Holmes and Rahe, th ...

Imprinting is (A) the adaptive response of an infant when its mother leaves a room (B) a maladaptive response of anxiety by an ...

9.Adit really likes the appearance of the Chevy Blazer his friend is selling, but knows he should be more conservative with his ...

B—Incentive theory discusses both the primary motives, such as hunger and sex, that push behavior, and the secondary motives, l ...

Drive reduction theory—focuses on internal states of tension, such as hunger, that motivate us to pursue actions that reduce th ...

Masters and Johnson described a pattern of four stages in the biological sexual response cycle:sexual arousal, plateau, orgasm, ...

Opponent-process theory—following a strong emotion, an opposing emotion counters the first emotion, lessening the experience of ...

 163 Developmental Psychology IN THIS CHAPTER Summary:From the womb to the tomb, developmental psychologists are interested in ...

Key Issues in Development Nature vs. Nurture For thousands of years, philosophers and psychologists took sides in the nature ver ...

studied throughout their lives, providing important information about changes in intellectual functioning across the lifespan. L ...

of the three different layers; the forming individual is now considered an embryo.During the embryonic period from the third thr ...

on the cheek and then trying to put the stimulus into his or her mouth. What touches the new- born’s cheek is frequently a nippl ...