Exam 8: Maintenance and Motivation

The activation of insulin receptors in the ______________ can enhance satiety.

Low blood volume is also referred to as ________

Mice deficient in ______________ become obese.

What is one environmental variable that would lead a person to eat almost double his or her normal amount of food consumption?

Recovered anorexics exhibit ________.

In an activity-stress research condition, if a ________ was administered, then the rats' excessive amounts of running subsided.

In a reward and motivational theory of Dr. Berridge, the "liking" experience refers to _________ and "wanting" refers to ______.

In the brain, the neuropeptide ________ is released from the posterior pituitary gland in response to hypovolemia.

____________ refers to possessing excessive weight because of muscle, fluids, fat, or bone composition.

In the _________ research condition rats were housed in cages, with their feeding restricted to one hour per day but unlimited access to activity wheels.

Anorexia patients exhibit ___________.

Rats, but not humans, find electrical stimulation of the septal nuclei to be rewarding.

The cooking of food likely made larger brains in humans possible.

___________ is a chemical meal initiator secreted by endocrine cells in the stomach.

________ is the net movement of fluid (e.g., water) through a semipermeable membrane into a region of higher solute concentration.

________ explains why you cannot eat another bite of your main dinner entrée but seem to have plenty of room for dessert.

________ can be defined as physical or mental effort undertaken to obtain desired resources.

High serum ________ is associated with faster cognitive decline in the elderly.

Adult subjects viewing snack food ads consumed ___________ than the subjects viewing non-snack food ads.

________ explains why you cannot eat another bite of your main dinner entrée but seem to have plenty of room for dessert.