Introduction to Psychology 10th Edition by Rod Plotnik,Haig Kouyoumdjian

Exercise 7

If there is an almost perfect balance between how much food an organism needs to maintain the body's energy needs and how much the organism actually eats, the organism's weight is said to be (a) _____. People who are severely overweight, as measured by a body mass index of 30 or higher are considered to be (b) _____. Three different factors influence the hunger drive. Factors that come from physiological changes in blood chemistry and signals from digestive organs that provide feedback to the brain, which, in turn, triggers us to eat or stop eating, are called (c) _____ factors. Factors that come from learned associations between food and other stimuli, sociocultural influences, and various personality problems are called (d) _____ factors. Factors that come from inherited instructions contained in our genes are called (e) _____ factors.