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| Factors that energize, direct, or sustain behavior |
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| State of biological or social deficiencies within the body |
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| Maslow's arrangement of needs, in which basic survival needs are lowest and personal growth needs are highest in terms of ultimate priority |
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| A state that is achieved when one's personal dreams and aspirations have been attained. |
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| Psychological state that motivates an organism to satisfy its needs |
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| Term to describe psychological activation, such as increased brain activity, autonomic responses, sweating, or muscle tension. |
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| The tendency for the bodily functions to maintain equilibrium |
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| External stimuli that motivate behaviors |
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| A psychological principle that dictates that behavioral efficiency increases with arousal up to an optimum point, after which it decreases with increasing arousal |
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| Motivation to perform an activity because of the external goals toward which that activity is directed |
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| The capacity to generate or recognize ideas, alternatives, or possibilities that may be useful in solving problems, communicating with others, or entertaining ourselves and others. |
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| The need for interpersonal attachments is a fundamental motive that has evolved for adaptive purposes. |
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| When there is a motivational conflict both to cooperate and to be selfish |
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| The process by which people initiate, adjust, or stop actions in order to promote the attainment of personal goals or plans. |
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| A desired outcome associated with some specific object of desire or some future behavioral intention. |
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| The expectancy that one's efforts will lead to success |
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| A model of self-regulation in which people evaluate progress in achieving goals. |
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| The desire to do well relative to the standards of excellence |
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| A phenomenon of low self-awareness in which people lose their individuality and fail to attend to personal standards |
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| When people transcend immediate temptations to successfully achieve long-term goals |
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| Synonymous with addiction, the physiological state in which failing to ingest a specific substance leads to bodily symptoms of withdrawal |
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| Habitual substance use, despite consequences, and a compulisve need to continue using the drug. |
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| Abnormal alchohol seeking characterized by loss of control over drinking and accompanied by physiological effects of tolerance and withdrawal |
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| A pattern of physiological responses during sexual activity. |
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| Evolutionary theory that suggests men and women look for different qualities in their relationship partners due ot gender specific adaptive problems they've faced throughout human history |
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