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What is Goal
The target of a set of behaviors.
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What is Blood-Sugar Level
The amount of sugar in the blood, which determines hunger.
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What is Extrinsic Motivation
Motivation that comes from outside the individual.
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What is Physiological Needs
In Maslow’s hierarchy, the needs most essential for human survival.
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What is Opponent-Process Theory
The presence of one emotion triggers its opposite.
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What is Glucose
Sugar in the blood.
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What is Drives
Forces that push or pull an organism into action to reach a goal.
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What is Intrinsic Motivation
Motivation that comes from within the individual.
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What is Safety Needs
Shelter and money in Maslow’s hierarchy.
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What is James-Lange Theory
The body responds before an emotion is felt.
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What is Motivation
The drive to seek a goal, such as food, water, or friends.
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What is Emotion
A state of the body causing feelings, such as joy, fear, or anger.
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What is Curiosity Motive
Drive that pulls a person to try new and different things.
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What is Need for Approval / Self-Esteem Needs
The psychological need to have other people think highly of you.
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What is Cannon-Bard Theory
Bodily reaction and emotional response occur at the same time.
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What is Emotional Intelligence
The ability to properly feel, deal with, and recognize emotions.
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What is Set Point
The body-regulating mechanism that determines a person’s typical weight.
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What is Contact Comfort
Satisfaction obtained from pleasant, soft physical stimulation.
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What is Self-Actualization Needs
In Maslow’s hierarchy, the needs most essential to achieve true happiness in life.
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What is Cognitive Theory
People label and align their behavior with the emotion they think they should be feeling.
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What is Cognition
Higher-order thought processes, such as reasoning and problem solving.
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What is Homeostasis
Bodily process of maintaining a balanced internal state.
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What is Stomach is contracting; blood-sugar level is low; taste receptors are active; weight loss and shrunken cells are signaling the body
One cause of hunger in humans.
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What is Need for Affiliation / Belongingness Needs
The psychological need to belong to or identify with a group.
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What is Contempt
Some psychologists believe that this emotion, which is characteristic of both anger and disgust, is a seventh basic human emotion.
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