drive state

Drive state

Affective experiences that motivate organisms to fulfill goals that are generally beneficial to their survival and reproduction.

Homeostasis

The tendency of an organism to maintain a stable state across all the different physiological systems in the body.

Homeostatic set point

An ideal level that the system being regulated must be monitored and compared to.

Hypothalamus

A portion of the brain involved in a variety of functions, including the secretion of various hormones and the regulation of hunger and sexual arousal.

Lordosis

A physical sexual posture in females that serves as an invitation to mate.

Preoptic area

A region in the anterior hypothalamus involved in generating and regulating male sexual behavior.

Reward value

A neuropsychological measure of an outcome’s affective importance to an organism.

Satiation

The state of being full to satisfaction and no longer desiring to take on more.