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Chapter 11 Motivation & Chapter 12 Emotion

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show A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior  
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show A complex behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species and is unlearned  
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show The point at which an individuals's weight thermostat is supposedly set. This is an older notion a specific weight that our body tries to maintain the newer idea is known as a settling point  
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Basal Metabolic Rate   show
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Drive-Reduction Theory   show
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Homeostasis   show
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show The Humanistic psychologist who created the hierarchy of needs which attempts to explain what motivates individuals  
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show Maslow's pyramid of human needs, beginning at the based of physiological needs that must first be satisfied before higher-level safety needs and then psychological needs become active.  
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show Physiological drive that motivates individuals to seek food  
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Glucose   show
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show Part of our brain that brings on hunger. When we stimulate it a person or animal will begin to eat and will never want to stop. If we remove this part of the brain the person or animal will never feel the desire to eat ever even if they are starving.  
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Ventromedial Hypothalamus   show
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show A positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behavior.  
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Settling Point   show
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Insulin   show
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show Protein secreted by fat cells; when abundant, causes the brain to increase metabolism and decrease hunger.  
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Orexin   show
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Ghrelin   show
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PYY   show
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Anorexia Nervosa   show
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show An eating disorder characterized by episodes of overeating, usually of high-calorie foods, followed by vomiting, laxative use, fasting, or excessive exercise  
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Alfred Kinsey   show
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Sexual Response Cycle   show
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Refractory Period   show
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show A problem that consistently impairs sexual arousal or functioning  
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Estrogen   show
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show The most important of the male sex hormones. Both males and females have it, but males have it in greater amounts.  
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Sexual Orientation   show
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show The application of psychological concepts and methods to optimizing human behavior in workplaces  
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show A subfield of I/O psychology that focuses on employee recruitment, selection, placement, training, appraisal, and development  
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show a subfield of I/O psychology that examines organizational influences on worker satisfaction and productivity and facilitates organizational change  
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Structured Interviews   show
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360-degree Feedback   show
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Achievement Motivation   show
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Task Leadership   show
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Social Leadership   show
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show A completely involved, focused state of consciousness, with diminished awareness of self and time, resulting from optimal engagement of one's skills. Flow is what we desire to create in the workplace.  
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Emotions   show
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James-Lange Theory   show
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show The theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers physiological responses AND the subjective experience of emotion  
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show Theory that to experience emotion one must be physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal  
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show Sometimes our arousal response to one event spills over into our response to the next event  
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show A machine, commonly used in attempts to detect lies, that measures several of the physiological responses accompanying emotion  
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show Emotional release. In psychology, the catharsis hypothesis maintains that "releasing" aggressive energy relieves aggressive urges  
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show People's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood.  
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show Self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with measures of objective well-being to evaluate people's quality of life.  
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show Our tendency to form judgments relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience  
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Relative deprivation   show
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Physiological Needs   show
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Safety Needs   show
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Belongingness and Love Needs   show
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show Need for self-esteem, achievement, competence, and independence; need for recognition and respect from others; 4th level of Maslow's hierarchy  
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show Need to live up to our fullest and unique potential; 5th level of Maslow's hierarchy.  
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Self-transcendence Needs   show
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show The part of the brain that manipulates the endocrine system. Known as the "master gland". Helps control hunger by regulating the amount of insulin produced by the brain. Lateral and ventromedial hypothalamus help regulate eating  
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show When the need to belong is denied. Often when people are ignored, excluded, or shunned. Can be particularly painful because we are social creatures. The fear of this can motivate us to act in ways that allow us to avoid ostracism.  
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show A sub-field of I/O psychology that explores how people and machines interact and how machines and physical environments can be made safe and easy to use  
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Body Mass Index   show
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show Psychologists who did experiments that proved that sometimes cognition does not precede (come before) emotion. Perhaps some emotions bypass the cortex (decision making) and go directly to the amygdala which controls strong emotional responses.  
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show Identified what she called the 10 basic emotions that are present from birth: joy, interest-excitement, surprise, sadness, anger, disgust, contempt, fear, shame, and guilt.  
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General adaptation syndrome   show
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Tend and befriend   show
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Psychophysiological illnesses   show
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show The study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health  
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show Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people  
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Type B   show
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show Alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive, or behavioral methods  
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Problem-focused coping   show
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show Attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to one's stress reaction  
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