Arousal, Behavior, Stress and Affect Worksheet

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University of Phoenix Material Arousal, Behavior, Stress, and Affect Worksheet Using the text for this course, the University Library, the Internet, or other resources answer the following questions. Your response to each question must be at least 250 words in length. 1. What are the differences between physiological and psychological needs? Provide examples of each in your response. A need is something that you want but will not always obtain. Physiological and psychological needs differ very much, but also go hand in hand. Psychological needs affect the body directly. Such as; the need for water, food, air, sleep, and shelter. These are the needs a person cannot live without. Maslow is known for making a pyramid called Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. It consisted of safety, belongingness, esteem, and self-actualization. In which he divides the needs into a lower level and a higher level. Physiological needs tell the body to send signal to the mind to get the body to take action or we do them in voluntarily which is psychological. You cannot touch or see the physiological actions, because they are in the mind. Physiological actions will tell the body what it needs. If you choose not to adhere to those signals then the response becomes psychological. If you are single and you want to have a relationship the feeling of longing and touch is a psychological need. You are choosing to have those feeling. When the goal cannot be reached or a partner is not found the physiological response fills that need by taking you mind of away from that want and providing something else to subdue that need for a while. However the psychological need can return when triggered by an emotion. * * 2. What is the relationship between arousal and behavior? Does this relationship impact performance and affect? * * Arousal is the feeling when you are

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