PSYC 4750 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Ovulation, Human Sexual Response Cycle, Executive Functions

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 4750
• Professor: Mark Fenske

Document Summary

Need: need thwarting (no food, no water, no sleep) threatens life and health, halts growth, disrupts well being. A condition within the person that is essential and necessary for growth, well-being, and life. The body puts up defenses in the form of motivational and emotional states that provide the impetus to act before serious damage occurs. Can be organized within a need structure (figure 4. 2) A biological condition within the organism that synchronizes brain structures, hormones, and major organs to regulate bodily well-being and to correct bodily imbalances that are potential threats to growth, well-being, and life. An inherent (inborn) psychological process that underlies the proactive desires to seek out interaction with the environment that can promote personal growth, social development, and psychological well-being. A developmentally acquired (socialized) psychological process to seek out and spend time interacting with those environmental events associated with positive emotion during ones socialization history.