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