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| the drive to seek a goal, such as food, water, friends, and so on |
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| a state of the body causing feelings of hope, fear, love, and so on |
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| a part of the inner brain that controls such basic needs and desires as pleasure, pain, fear, rage, hunger, thirst, and sex |
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| the unit in the inner brain that registers and controls activity level, increases excitement, and helps generate sleep |
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| the controller of other glands and hormones, as well as the producer of its own hormone that regulates growth |
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| glands that secrete adrenaline, which stirs up the body, changing the breathing, perspiration, heart rate, and so on |
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| the male sex glands; make sperm |
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| the female sex glands; makes eggs |
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| male hormones that control sexual interest in both males and females |
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| the hormones 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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| 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 see 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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| seeking satisfaction that comes from within the individual for certain behavior |
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| seeking a reward from outside the organism for certain behavior |
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| the satisfaction obtained from pleasant, soft stimulation |
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| psychologist who performed a study with baby monkeys and two fake mothers, one wire (with food) and one cloth (without food). The monkeys tended to go to the cloth monkey for comfort when startled. |
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| a system that ranks needs one above the other: physiological needs; safety; belonging; self-esteem; self-actualization |
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| shelter, nest egg of money |
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| friendship, closeness with another |
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| liking and respecting yourself, feeling important |
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| establishing meaningful goals and a purpose in life |
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| psychological motivation for belonging to and identifying with groups |
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| psychological motivation for obtaining other people's good opinion of oneself |
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| psychological motivation for personal accomplishment |
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| for emotion, first the body responds, then one feels the emotion |
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| the bodily reaction and the emotional response to an event occur at the same time |
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| cognitive theory (Schachter) |
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| We label a bodily response by giving it the name of an emotion we think we are feeling |
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