Psychology Chapter 5

5. A desire to excel or out perform others.
6. A cultural norm that specifies when, where, and how a person should express an emotion.
10. An eating disorder characterized by the maintenance of unusually low body weight and a distorted body image.
12. A process that arouses, maintains, and guides behavior toward goal.
17. A theory of emotion that proposes that physical sensations lead to subjective feelings.
18. A theory of emotion that views emotions as a reservoir that fills up and spills over: predicts that expressing an emotion will reduce arousal.
19. A male hormone.
20. Regions of cortex located t the junction of the frontal and temporal lobes.

1. A reward that pulls an organism’s behavior in a particular direction.
2. A theory of motion featuring the simultaneous and independent occurrence of physical sensations and subjective feelings due in an emotional experience.
3. A description of the relationships between fast complexity, arousal and performance.
4. A state of tension and arousal triggered by cues important for survival.
7. A state of having fulfilled your potential.
8. A sense of feeling full, not requiring further food.
9. An eating disorder characterized by bingeing, purging, and having feelings of depression, disgust, and lost control.
11. A combination of arousal, physical sensations, and subjective feelings that occurs spontaneously, in response to environmental stimuli.
13. A value that is defended to maintain homeostasis
14. A steady internal balance, or equilibrium.
15. A type of sugar that plays an important role in hunger levels.
16. A hormone secreted by fat cells that helps the body maintain an appropriate level of stored fat.