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45 Cards in this Set
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The influences that account for the initiation, direction, intensity, and persistence of behavior.
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Motivation
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A reason or purpose for behavior.
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Motive
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Automatic, involuntary, and unlearned behavior patterns that are consistently displayed in the presence of specific stimuli.
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Instincts
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A theory that proposed that human behavior is caused by instincts.
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Instinct theory
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The tendency of an organism to maintain its physiological system at a stable, steady level, by constantly adjusting to changes in internal or external stimuli.
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Homeostasis
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State sthat biological needs, whcih are created by imbalances in homeostasis, produce drivese.
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Drive reduction theory
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A biological requirement for well-being.
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Need
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A psychological state of arousal that compels us to take action to restore out homeostatic balance.
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Drive
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Drives that arise from biological needs.
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Primary drives
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Are learned through operant or classical conditioning.
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Secondary drives
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A general internal level of activation reflected in the state of several physiological systems.
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Arousal
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State that people are motivated to behave in ways that maintain an optimal level of arousal.
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Arousal theories
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States that human behavior is goal directed; we act to obtain positive stimuli and avoid negative stimuli.
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Incentive theory
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Is the state of watning to eat.
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Hunger
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Is the state of no longer wanting to eat.
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Satiety
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Is a condition of severe overweight and can contribute to diabetes, high blood pressure, and increased risk of heart attack.
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Obesity
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Is an eating disorder characterized by an obsession with eating and self-starvation, sometimes to the point of death.
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Anorexia nervosa
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Is an eating disorder in which a person consumes large quantities of good and then attempts to eliminte the food through vomiting.
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Bulimia nervosa
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A pattern of arousal during and after secual activity.
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Sexual response cycle
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Influence our motivation to participate in secual activity.
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Sex hormones
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Female hormones.
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Estrogens
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Female hormones.
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Progestins
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Male hormones.
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Androgens
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Activity is sexual interaction with people of opposite sex.
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Heterosexual
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Activity is sexual interaction with people of same sex.
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Homosexual
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Activity is secual interaction with people of both sexes.
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Bisexual
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Are conditions in which a person's ability or desire to have sex is diminshed or gone.
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Sexual dysfunction
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Is either a positive or a negative experience that is felt with some intensity as happening to the self, is generated in part by a cognitive appraisal of sitations, and is accompanied by both and learned and unlearned responses.
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Emotion
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A subdivision of the autonomic nervous system, is involved in activities relating to the growth and nourishment of the body.
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Parasympathetic system
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Is reflected in the degree to which people establish specific goals, care about meeting those goals, and experience feelings of satisfaction in doing so.
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Need achievement
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The influences that account for the initiation, direction, intensity, and persistence of behavior.
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Motivation
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A reason or purpose for behavior.
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Motive
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Automatic, involuntary, and unlearned behavior patterns that are consistently displayed in the presence of specific stimuli.
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Instincts
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A theory that proposed that human behavior is caused by instincts.
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Instinct theory
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The tendency of an organism to maintain its physiological system at a stable, steady level, by constantly adjusting to changes in internal or external stimuli.
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Homeostasis
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State sthat biological needs, whcih are created by imbalances in homeostasis, produce drivese.
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Drive reduction theory
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A biological requirement for well-being.
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Need
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A psychological state of arousal that compels us to take action to restore out homeostatic balance.
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Drive
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Drives that arise from biological needs.
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Primary drives
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Are learned through operant or classical conditioning.
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Secondary drives
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A general internal level of activation reflected in the state of several physiological systems.
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Arousal
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State that people are motivated to behave in ways that maintain an optimal level of arousal.
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Arousal theories
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States that human behavior is goal directed; we act to obtain positive stimuli and avoid negative stimuli.
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Incentive theory
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Is the state of watning to eat.
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Hunger
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Is the state of no longer wanting to eat.
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Satiety
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