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| motivation | a need or desire tht energizes and directs behavior; a person that has been in ia car wreck is told they will never walk again but they motivate themselves to walk
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| drivereduction theory | the idea that a physiological need creates an aroused tension state that motivates an organsim to satisfy the need; someone that is hungry will eat to release the tension
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| homeostasis | a tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal state; the regulation of any aspect of body chemistry, such as blood glucose, around a particular level; someone that stays the same
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| incentives | a positive or negetive environmental stimulus that motivates behavior;
NEED(foor, water).....DRIVE(hunger, thirst)....DRIVE-REDUCING BEHAVIORS(eating, drinking)
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| hiearachy of needs | Maslow's pyramid of human needs, beginning at the base with physiological needs that must first be sastified before higher-level safety needs and the psychological needs become active; someone who is hungry and goes and finds food to eat is at the physiol
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| set point | the point at which an individual's "weight thermostat" is supposedly set. When the body falls below this weight, an increase in hunger and a lowered metabolic rate may act to restore the lost weight; someone that has a set weight and then gains weight an
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| anorexia nervosa | an eating disorder in which a normal-weight person diets and becomes significally underweight, yet still feeling fat, continues to strave; Mary-Kate Olsen, Lindsey Lohan, Nicole Richie all are anorexic
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| Bulimia nervosa | an eating disorder characterized by episodes of overeating, usually of high-calorie foods, followed by vomiting, fasting, or excessive exercise; someone who feels they have ate to much through out the day will throw up so they don't gain the weight
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| sexual response cycle | the four stages of sexual responding described by Masters and Johnson-excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution; the stages men and women go through when having sex
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| refractory period | a resting period after orgasm, during which a man cannot achieve another orgasm; a man can no longer have an orgasm
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| sexual disorders | a problem that consistently impairs sexual arousal or functioning; someone who is having problems and cannot get any sexual arousal
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| sexual orientation | an enduring sexual attraction toward members of either one's own sex or the other sex; someone who is attracted to the same sex or attracted to the opposite sex
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| industrial-organizational psychology (I/O) | the application of psychological concepts and methods to optimizing human behavior in workplaces; applies psychology's principles to the workplace
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| personal psychology | a subfield of I/O psypsychology that focuses on employee recruitment, selection, placement, training, appraisal, and development; using psychology when hiring a new employee to know how they will really work
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| organizational psychology | a subfield of I/O psychology that examines organizational influences on worker satsifaction and productivity and facilitates organizational change; seeing how work environments and management styles influence worker motivation, satsifaction, and productiv
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| structured interviews | interview process that asks the same jobrelevant questions of all applications, each of whom is rated on establidhed scales; ask people the same questions and hear all the different answers that are given and place the answers on a scale
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| achievement motivation | a desire for significant accomplishment for mastery of things, people, or ideas; for attaining a higher standard; someone who has to be the best or have the most control
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| task leadership | goal-oriented leadership that sets standards, organizes work, and focuses attention on goals; a leader that sets certain goals and has set standards how they want things done
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| social leadership | group-oriented leadership that builds teamwork, mediates conflict, and offers support; a football team that sets goals for each game and supports teammates
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| basal metabolic rate | the body's resting rate of energy expenditure; the amount of energy expanded while at rest
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