9.1.4: Outside Resources

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    9.1.4: Outside Resources
    Web: An open textbook chapter on homeostasis
    http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Human_Physiology/Homeostasis
    Web: The science of sexual arousal
    http://www.apa.org/monitor/apr03/arousal.aspx

    Discussion Questions

    1. The ability to maintain homeostasis is important for an organism’s survival. What are the ways in which homeostasis ensures survival? Do different drive states accomplish homeostatic goals differently?
    2. Drive states result in the narrowing of attention toward the present and toward the self. Which drive states lead to the most pronounced narrowing of attention toward the present? Which drive states lead to the most pronounced narrowing of attention toward the self?
    3. What are important differences between hunger and sexual arousal, and in what ways do these differences reflect the biological needs that hunger and sexual arousal have been evolved to address?
    4. Some of the properties of sexual arousal vary across males and females. What other drives states affect males and females differently? Are there drive states that vary with other differences in humans (e.g., age)?

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