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| Dynamics of behavior that initiate, sustain, direct, and terminate actions |
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| internal deficiency; causes |
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| Energized motivational state |
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| Action or series of actions |
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| Target of motivated behavior |
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| "Pull" of a goal ; goal's appeal beyond its ability to fill a need |
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| Innate motives based on biological needs we must meet to survive |
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| Innate needs for stimulation and information |
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| Based on learned needs, drives, and goals |
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| Maintain homeostasis (body equilibrium; balance) |
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| Active self-starvation or sustained loss of appetite that seems to have psychological origins |
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| aka "Binge-Purge Syndrome" ; excessive eating usually followed by self induced vomiting and/or taking laxatives |
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| Motivation to engage in sexual behavior |
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| Activation of body and nervous system; ranges from high to low |
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| If a task is simple, arousal should be high; If a task is complex, arousal should be low |
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| Heightened physiological arousal and excessive worry |
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| Acquired by growing up in a particular society or culture; learned by socialization |
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| Desire to excel, or to meet some internal standard of excellence |
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| Desire to have impact or control over others |
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| motivation coming from within, not from external rewards |
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| Based on obvious external rewards, obligations, or similar factors |
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| characterized by physiological arousal and changes in facial expressions, gestures, posture, and subjective feelings |
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| changes in heart rate, blood pressure, perspiration, and other involuntary bodily responses; regulated by sympathetic nervous system |
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| outward signs of what a person is feeling |
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| Private emotional experience |
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| emotions processed by left hemisphere |
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| emotions processed by right hemisphere |
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| specialized in producing fear |
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| Neural system that connects the brain with internal organs and glands |
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| "Fight or Flight"; activates body for emergency action |
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| Quiets body and conserves energy |
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| device that records changes in heart rate, blood pressure, respiration, and sweating |
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| Neutral, emotional questions in a polygraph test |
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| Questions to which only someone guilty should react by becoming anxious or emotional |
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| Questions that almost always provoke anxiety in a polygraph |
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| Emotional feelings follow bodily arousal and come from awareness of such arousal |
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| The thalmus causes emotional feelings and bodily arousal to occur at the same time |
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| Schachter's Cognitive Theory |
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| Emotions occur when a label is applied to general physical arousal through the process of attribution |
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| mental process of assigning causes to events |
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| refers to evaluating the personal meaning of a stimulus (Richard Lazarus) |
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| wrote the theory that emotions cause innately programmed changes in facial expressions; sensations from facial expressions help define what emotion a person feels |
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| Believes that making faces can cause emotion |
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| creates ANS arousal; initiates cognitive labeling; leads to adaptive behaviors; release innate emotional expressions; changes conscious awareness of one's own state |
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