| Term | Definition |
|---|
| thirst | psychological need for water |
| reasons we drink | to have same amount of water inside and outside cells, lost due to dehydration, we have too much salt in our cells |
| intracellular thirst | caused by osmosis, too much salt |
| extracellular thirst | cause by dehydration |
| conditioned aversion | memories make food bad |
| crucial to apetite: | hunger and taste |
| sham feeding | whatever is eating will fall out, not digested |
| alliesthesia | esternal stimulus that corrects an internal trouble is experienced as pleasurable |
| liver | sends satitey signals |
| lateral hypothalamic syndrome | destruction of lateral hypothalamus produces apparent total lack of hunger |
| ventromedial hypothalamic syndrome | lesions of v.h. produce extreme appetites |
| stimulation of lateral hypothalamus = | overeating |
| stimulation of ventromedial hpothalamus = | stops eating |
| centres for affecting aggression: | prefrontal cortex, hypothalamus and amygdala |
| side effect of low seretonin | aggression |
| cause of high testosterone in early life | aggression |
| aggression | behaviour intended to hurt another |
| frustration-aggresion hypothesis | when person's goal is blocked, aggressive drive motivates them to injure what is blocking them |
| cause of anger | frustration |
| social learning theory | can fortell consequences and behave accordingly |
| vicarious learning | learning by observation |
| catharsis | purging emotion by experiencing it intensley |
| gender identity | males think of themselves as males, females as females |
| androgen | most important hormone in genital development |
| lots of androgens = | male genitals |
| little, no androgens = | female androgens |
| androgenisation | influence of androgen |
| gonadotropin releasing factors | from hypothalamus, stimulate pituitary gland |
| gonadotropins | circulate in blook until they reach gonads |
| female gonadotropins | follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) lutenizing hormone (LH) |
| male gonadotropin | interstitial cell stimulating hormone (ICSH) |
| sexual orientation | degree to which he/she is attracted to person of opposite sex |
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