This is defined as a need or desire that energizes and directs behavior.

Hunger pains come from the stomach contractions, neutral areas of the brain monitor blood chemistry and incoming information about the body's state, appetite hormones,

The four stages of sexual responding described by masters and Johnson--excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution.

This is the desire for internal gratification

a response of the whole organism, involving (1) physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience

This perspective explores genetic influences on complex behaviors.

genes and environment, obesity correlates with depression, those who wish to lose weight make life long changes in habits

A resting period after orgasm, during which a man cannot achieve another orgasm.

This is the desire for external rewards.

the theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli

This theory explores how physiological needs create aroused tension states (drives) that direct us to satisfy those needs. The goal is homeostasis.

Basal Metabolic Rate

A problem that consistently impairs sexual arousal or functioning.

This is the need to be included with others, triggered when people feel threatened, anxious, or celebratory.

the theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experience of emotion

This theory proposes that some behaviors (such as those driven by curiosity) do not reduce physiological needs but rather are prompted by a search for an optimum level of arousal.

Glucose

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.

deliberate social exclusion of individuals or groups

the Schachter-Singer theory that to experience emotion one must (1) be physically aroused and (2) cognitively label the arousal

This is a pyramid that proposes the hierarchy of human needs, from basic needs such as hunger and thirst up to higher-level needs such as self-actualization and self-transcendence.

Insulin controls blood glucose and Leptin causes the brain to increase metabolism and decrease hunger.

Sexual activity, including specifically sexual intercourse.

excessive self-love and self-absorption

A machine used in attempts to detect lies that measures several of the physiological responses (such as perspiration, heart rate, and breathing changes) accompanying emotion