AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Answer and Explanation: The correct answer is (c) drive; need. We need food to survive and maintain our physical nutrition by consuming sufficient calories. A person who is hungry will eat to reduce their hunger drive, e.g. a person feels hungry and then eats a meal to meet the daily dietary requirements.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hunger is a drive state, an affective experience (something you feel, like the sensation of being tired or hungry) that motivates organisms to fulfill goals that are generally beneficial to their survival and reproduction.

Detailed explanation-3: -A severe lack of food for a prolonged period-not enough calories of any sort to keep up with the body’s energy needs-is starvation. The body’s reserve resources are depleted. The result is substantial weight loss, wasting away of the body’s tissues and eventually death.

Detailed explanation-4: -Psychological hunger is more the desire to eat with no obvious physical feelings. One way to understand if the hunger is physical or emotional is often the rate of which it affects you.

Detailed explanation-5: -Scientifically, hunger is referred to as food deprivation. Simply put, all hungry people are food insecure, but not all food insecure people are hungry, as there are other causes of food insecurity, including those due to poor intake of micro-nutrients.