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29 Cards in this Set
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need to master difficult challenges, to outperform others, and to meet high standards of excellence.
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Achievement Motive
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Principal class of gonadal hormones in males.
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Androgens
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One or more premises used to provide support for a conclusion.
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Argument
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Premises for which no proof or evidence is offered.
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Assumptions
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Persons who seek emotional-sexual relationships with members of either sex.
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Bisexuals
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Weight (in kilograms) divided by height (in meters) squared (kg/m2).
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Body mass Index (BMI)
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Cultural norms that regulate the appropriate expressions of emotions.
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Display Rules
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Internal state of tension that motivates an organism to engage in activities that should reduce the tension.
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Drive
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Subjective conscious experience (the cognitive component) accompanied by bodily arousal (the physiological component) and by characteristic overt expressions (the behavioral component).
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Emotion
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Principal class of gonadal hormones in females.
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Estrogens
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Increase in the electrical conductivity of the skin that occurs when sweat glands increase their activity.
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Galvanic Skin Response (GSR)
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Simple sugar that is an important source of energy.
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Glucose
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Neurons sensitive to glucose in the surrounding fluid.
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Glucostats
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Effect that occurs when 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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Hedonic Adaptation
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Persons who seek emotional-sexual relationships with members of the other sex.
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Heterosexuals
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State of physiological equilibrium or stability.
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Homeostasis
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Persons who seek emotional-sexual relationships with members of the same sex.
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Homosexuals
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External goal that has the capacity to motivate behavior.
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Incentive
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Goal-directed behavior.
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Motivation
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Condition of being overweight.
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Obesity
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What each sex invests—in terms of time, energy, survival risk, and forgone opportunities—to produce and nurture offspring.
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Parental Investment
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Device that records autonomic fluctuations while a subject is questioned, in an effort to determine whether the subject is telling the truth. (Lie detector Test)
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Polygraph
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Rreasons presented to persuade someone that a conclusion is true or probably true.
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Premises
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Time following orgasm during which males are largely unresponsive to further stimulation.
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Refractory period
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The idea that the body monitors fat-cell levels to keep them (and weight) fairly stable).
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Set- Point Theory
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The idea that weight tends to drift around a level at which the constellation of factors that determine food consumption and energy expenditure achieve an equilibrium.
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Settling- Point Theory
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A person’s preference for emotional and sexual relationships with individuals of the same sex, the other sex, or either sex.
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Sexual Orientation
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Individuals’ perceptions of their overall happiness and life satisfaction.
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Subjective Well- Being
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Engorgement of blood vessels.
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Vasocongestion
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