Chapter 11 Psychology
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- Acquired immune deficiency syndrom (aids)
- a disease often transmitted sexually that gradually destroys the body's immune system
- Anorexia Nervosa
- a psychological condition in which a person refuses to eat food and steadily loses weight
- bulimia nervosa
- a condition in which a person alternated between selfstravation and excessive eating
- Drive
- an internal state of unrest that energizes one behavior after another until one of them remives the irritation
- Estrogen
- a hormone present in higher quantities in females than in males
- Extrinsic motivation
- a morivation based on rewards and punishment the act may bring
- Gender identity
- the sex that a person regard him.her self as being
- glucagon
- a hormone that the pancreas releases to convert stored energy supplies back into blood glucose
- homeostasis
- the maintenance of biological conditions at an optimum level within an organism
- human relations approach (theory Y)
- the view that emplyees like to take responsibility for their work, and feel a sense of acomplishement
- incentive
- external stimuli that pull us toward certain actions
- insulin
- hormone that increases the entry of glucose and other nutrients
- intersexes
- people with an anatomy that appears intermediate between male and female
- intrinsic motivation
- a motivation to engage in an act for its own sake
- lateral hypothalamus
- an area of the brain that contributes to the control of hunger