Motivation and Emotion
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| 1147523082 | Motivation | Goal-directed behavior. | 0 | |
| 1147523083 | Homeostasis | A state of psychological equilibrium or stability. | 1 | |
| 1147523084 | Drive | An internal state of tension that motivates an organism to engage in activities that should reduce this tension. | 2 | |
| 1147523085 | Incentive | An external goal that has the capacity to motivate behavior. | 3 | |
| 1147523086 | Glucose | A simple sugar that is an important source of energy. | 4 | |
| 1147523087 | Glucostats | Neurons sensitive to glucose in the surrounding fluid. | 5 | |
| 1147523088 | Obesity | The condition of being overweight. | 6 | |
| 1147523089 | Body mass index (BMI) | Weight (in kilograms) divided by height (in meters) squared (kg/m^2). | 7 | |
| 1147523090 | Setpoint theory | The body monitors fat cell levels to keep them (and weight) fairly stable. | 8 | |
| 1147523091 | Setting-point theory | Weight tends to drift around the level at which the constellation of factors that determine food consumption and energy expenditure achieve equilibrium. | 9 | |
| 1147523092 | Estrogens | The principle class of gonadal hormones in females. | 10 | |
| 1147523093 | Androgens | The principle class of gonadal hormones in males. | 11 | |
| 1147523094 | Parental investment | What each sex has to invest - in terms of time, energy, survival risk, and forgone opportunities - to produce and nurture offspring. | 12 | |
| 1147523095 | Sexual orientation | A person's preference for emotional and sexual relationships with individuals of the same sex, the other sex, or either sex. | 13 | |
| 1147523096 | Heterosexuals | Those who seek emotional-sexual relationships with members of the other sex. | 14 | |
| 1147523097 | Bisexuals | Those who seek emotional-sexual relationships with members of either sex. | 15 | |
| 1147523098 | Homosexuals | Those who seek emotional-sexual relationships with members of the same sex. | 16 | |
| 1147523099 | Vasocongestion | The engorgement of blood vessels. | 17 | |
| 1147523100 | Refractory period | A time following orgasm during which males are largely unresponsive to further stimulation. | 18 | |
| 1147523101 | Achievement motive | The need to master difficult challenges, to outperform others, and to meet high standards of excellence. | 19 | |
| 1147523102 | Emotion | (1) a subjective conscious experience (the cognitive component) accompanied by (2) bodily arousal (the physiological component) and by (3) characteristic overt expressions (the behavioral component). | 20 | |
| 1147523103 | Galvanic skin response (GSR) | An increase in the electrical conductivity of the skin that occurs when sweat glands increase their activity. | 21 | |
| 1147523104 | Polygraph | A device that records autonomic fluctuations while a subject is questioned. | 22 | |
| 1147523105 | Lie detectors | A device that records autonomic fluctuations while a subject is questioned. | 23 | |
| 1147523106 | Display rules | Norms that regulate the appropriate expression of emotions. | 24 | |
| 1147523107 | Subjective well-being | Individuals' perceptions of their overall personal perceptions of their overall happiness and life satisfaction. | 25 | |
| 1147523108 | Hedonic adaption | When the mental scale that people use to judge pleasantness-unpleasantness of their experiences shifts so that their neutral point, or baseline for comparison, changes. | 26 | |
| 1147523109 | Argument | One or more premises that are used to provide support for a conclusion. | 27 | |
| 1147523110 | Premises | The reasons that are presented to persuade someone that a conclusion is true or probably true. | 28 | |
| 1147523111 | Assumptions | Premises for which no proof or evidence is offered. | 29 |
