A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior.

The form of sugar that circulates in the blood and causes hunger when levels are low.

A response of the whole organism, involving physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience.

The process by which we perceive and respond to certain threatening or challenging events.

The six universal emotions, according to a majority of psychologists.

Pyramid of human needs, beginning at the base with physiological needs that must first be satisfied before higher-level safety needs and then psychological needs become active.

A positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behavior.

The effect of facial expressions on experienced emotions.

Competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people.

People’s tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood.

The point at which an individual’s “weight thermostat” is supposedly fixed.

An enduring physical attraction toward members of either one’s own sex or the other sex.

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

Easygoing, relaxed people.

The alternative name of the Two Factor Theory.

The idea that a physiological need creates an aroused tension state that motivates an organism to satisfy the need.

The idea that humans seek balance between boredom and excitement by adjusting their behavior.

The theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers physiological responses and the experience of emotion.

Concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress in three phases - alarm, resistance, and exhaustion.

A desire to perform a behavior effectively for its own sake.

The tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal state.

The body’s resting rate of energy expenditure.

The theory that to experience emotion, one must be physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal.

According to Selye, the final stage of how our bodies and minds respond to stress.

In terms of the psychology of belongingness, humans have a fear of social exclusion, also referred to as this.