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drive
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hypothetical internal state of tension that motivates an organism to engage in activities that should reduce tension
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incentive
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an external goal that has the capacity to motivate behavior
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glucostats
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neurons sensitive to glucose in the surrounding fluid
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parental investment
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what each sex has to invest in terms of time, energy, survival risk, and forgone opportunities (to pursue other goals) to produce and nurture offspring
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sexual orientation
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a person's preference for emotional and sexual relationships
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heterosexual
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people who seek emotional-sexual relationships with members of the other sex
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homosexual
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people who seek emotional-sexual relationships with members of the same sex
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achievement motive
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the need to master difficult challenges, to outperform others, and to meet high standards of excellence
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emotion
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involves a subjective conscious experience (the cognitive component) accompanied by bodily arousal (the physiological component) and characteristic overt expressions (the behavioral component)
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polygraph (lie detector)
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a device that records autonomic fluctuations while a subject is questioned
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galvanic skin response (gsr)
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an increase in the electrical conductivity of the skin that occurs when sweat glands increase their activity
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display rules
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norms that regulate the appropriate expression of emotion
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hedonic adaptation
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the mental scale that people use to judge the pleasantness-unpleasantness of their experiences shifts so that their neutral point, or baseline for comparison, changes
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argument
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consists of one or more premises that are used to provide support for a conclusion
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premises
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the reasons that are presented to persuade someone that a conclusion is true or possibly true
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assumptions
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premises for which no proof or evidence is offered
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bisexual
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people who see emotional-sexual relationships of either sex
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glucose
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a simple sugar that is an important source of energy
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motivation
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goal-driven behavior
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homeostasis
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a state of physiological equilibrium or stability
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homeostasis
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a state of physiological equilibrium or stability
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