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The drive to seek a goal, such as food, water or friends. |
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A state of the body causing feelings, such as of hope, fear, or love. |
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part of the lower brain that controls such basic needs and desires as pleasure, pain, fear, rage, huger, thirst, and sex. |
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brain structure responsible for emotional responses of aggression and fear. |
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unit in the brain that registers and controls activity level, increases excitement, and helps generate sleep. |
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Gland that controls other glands and hormones, as well as producing its own hormone that regulates growth. |
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Glands that secrete adrenaline, which stirs up the body, changing breathing, perspiration, heart rate, and so on. |
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the male sex glands; they make sperm. |
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the female sex glands; they make eggs. |
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male hormones; they control sexual interest in both males and females. |
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the hormone that controls the female reproductive cycle. |
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forces that push an organism into action to reach a goal. |
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the target of a set of behaviors |
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bodily process of maintaining a balanced internal state. |
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the amount of sugar contained in the blood, which indicates the level of hunger. |
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another name for sugar in the blood. |
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the body-regulating mechanism that determines a person’s typical weight. |
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a drive that moves a person to seek new and different things. |
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a drive that moves a person to handle and use objects in the environment. |
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motivation that comes from within the individual. |
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motivation that comes from outside the individual. |
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the satisfaction obtained from pleasant, soft physical stimulation |
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– a system that ranks human needs one above the other, with the most basic needs for physical survival at the bottom of the pyramid; proposed by the psychologist Abraham Maslow. |
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Needs at the bottom of Maslow’s hierarchy: hunger and thirst. |
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needs at the second level of Maslow’s hierarchy: shelter, nest egg of money. |
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needs at the third level of Maslow’s hierarchy: friendship, closeness with another. |
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needs at the fourth level of Maslow’s hierarchy: liking and respecting yourself, feeling important and useful. |
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needs at the top of Maslow’s hierarchy: establishing meaningful goals and a purpose in life. |
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Psychological need to belong to and identify with groups. |
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Psychological need to have other people think highly of oneself. |
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Psychological need for personal accomplishment. |
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theory that the presence of one emotion triggers its opposite, which then emerges somewhat later. |
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higher-order thought processes, such as reasoning and problem solving. |
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the ability to properly feel, deal with, and recognize emotions. |
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theory of emotion proposing that first the body responds and then one feels the emotion. |
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theory of emotion proposing that the bodily reaction and the emotional response to an event occur at the same time. |
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theory of emotion proposed by Stanley Schachter; it hold that people label a bodily response by giving it the name of the emotion they think and feel. |
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