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24 Cards in this Set
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The 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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Efforts to predict one’s emotional reactions to future events.
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Affective forecasting
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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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Cultural norms that regulate the appropriate expressions of emotions.
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Display rules
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An 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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A subjective conscious experience (the cognitive component) accompanied by bodily arousal (the physiological component) and by characteristic overt expression (the behavioral component).
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Emotion
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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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Galvanic skin response (GSR)
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A 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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An 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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Hedonistic 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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A 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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The chemical substances released by the endocrine glands.
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Hormones
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An external goal that has the capacity to motivate behavior.
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Incentive
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a hormone secreted by the pancreas
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Insulin
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A device that records autonomic fluctuations while a subject is questioned, in an effort to determine whether the subject is telling the truth. See Polygraph.
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Lie detector
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Goal-directed behavior.
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Motivation
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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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A device that records autonomic fluctuations while a subject is questioned, in an effort to determine whether the subject is telling the truth.
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Polygraph
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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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