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| Need or desire that energizes and directs behavior |
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| Complex behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species and is unlearned |
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| Maintains that physiological need creates an aroused tension state (drive) that motivates an organism to satisfy the need |
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| Tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal state; ie. body temperature, blood glucose levels, etc. |
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| Positive or negative environmental stimuli that motivate behavior |
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| Maslow's pyramid of human needs, beginning at the base with physiological needs that must first be satisfied before higher-level safety needs and then psychological needs become active |
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| Completely involved, focused state of consciousness, with diminished awareness of self and time resulting from optimal engagement |
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| Industrial-Organizational (I/O) Psychology |
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| Application of psychological concepts and methods to optimizing human behavior in workplaces |
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| Subfield of I/O psychology that focuses on employee recruitment, selection, placement, training, appraisal, and development |
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| Organizational Psychology |
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| Subfield of I/O psychology that examines organizational influences on worker satisfaction and productivity |
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| Interview that asks the same job-relevant questions of all applicants, each of whom is rated on established scales |
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| Desire for significant accomplishment; for rapid mastery of things, people, ideas |
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| Goal-oriented leadership that sets standards, organizes work, and focuses attention on goals |
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| Group-oriented leadership that builds teamwork, mediates conflict, and offers support |
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| Four stages of sexual responding described by Masters and Johnson - excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution |
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| Resting period after orgasm, during which a man cannot achieve another orgasm |
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| A problem that consistently impairs sexual arousal or functioning |
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| Sex hormones, such as estradiol, secreted in greater amounts in females; in nonhuman female mammals, estrogen levels peak during ovulation |
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| Most important of male sex hormones |
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| Enduring social attraction toward members of either one's own sex or the other sex |
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