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What is basal metabolic rate
The body´s resting rate of energy expenditure.
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What is sexual response cycle
The four stages of sexual responding described by masters and Johnson- excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution.
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The effect of facial expressions on experienced emotions, as when a facial expression of anger or happiness intensifies feelings of anger or happiness
What is facial feedback
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The process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging.
What is stress
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A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior.
What is motivation
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What is bulimia nervosa
An eating disorder characterized by episodes of overeating, usually of high-calorie foods, followed by vomiting, laxative use, fasting, or excessive exercising.
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Sex hormones, such as estradiol, secreted in greater amounts by females thane by males and contributing to female sex characteristics. In nonhuman female mammals, estrogen levels peak during ovulation, promoting sexual receptivity.
What is estrogens
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Emotional release. The catharsis hypothesis maintains that ¨releasing¨ aggressive energy (through action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges.
What is catharsis
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A sub field of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine.
What is health psychology
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What is an instinct
A complex behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species and is unlearned.
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What is significant binge-eating episodes, followed by distress, disgust, or guilt, but without the compensatory purging, fasting, or excessive exercise that marks bulimia nervosa.
What is Binge-eating disorder
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An enduring sexual attraction toward members of either ones own sex (homosexual orientation) or the other sex (hetero sexual orientation).
What is sexual orientation
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What is Well being
Self perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with measures of objective well-being to evaluate peoples quality of life.
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What is behavioral medicine
An interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease.
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What is an incentive
A positive or negative environment stimulus that motivates behavior.
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What is anorexia nervosa
An eating disorder in which a person diets and becomes significantly underweight, yet, still feeling fat, continues to starve.
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The most important of the male sex hormones. Both males and females have it, but the additional testosterone in males stimulates the growth of the male sex organs in the fetus and the development of the male sex characteristics during puberty.
What is Testosterone
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Feel-good, do good phenomenon
What is peoples tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood.
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Selye´s concept of the body´s adaptive response to stress in three phases-alarm, resistance, exhaustion.
What is general adaptation syndrome (GAS)
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The idea that a physiological need creates an aroused tension state (a drive) that motivates an organism to satisfy the need.
What is drive-reduction theory.
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What is the form of sugar that circulates in the blood and provides the major source of energy for body tissues. When its level is low, we feel hunger.
glucose
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What is refractory period
A resting period after orgasm, during which a man can not achieve another orgasm.
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What is relative deprivation
The perception that we are worse off relative to those with whom we compare ourselves.
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Literally, ¨mind-body¨ illness; any stress-related physical illness, such as hypertension and some headaches.
What is psychoneuroimmunology (PNI)
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A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior.
What is Motivation
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