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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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