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Chapter 5

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Drive reduction theory   show
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show A drive that motivates us to maintain homeostasis in certain biological processes within the body.  
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show A tendency to desire and seek out positive incentives or rewards and to avoid negative outcomes.  
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Bulimia nervosa   show
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show A mental health disorder in which a person has an intense fear of gaining weight, even though he/she is actually underweight. This irrational fear motivates the person to lose unhealthy amounts of weight through self-starvation.  
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show An uncomfortable internal state that motivates us to reduce this discomfort through our behavior.  
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show Innate impulse from within a person that directs or motivates behavior.  
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Homeostasis   show
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Negative feedback loop   show
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Secondary drive   show
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Arousal theory   show
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show A person, who by trait, tends to seek out arousing activities.  
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show A theory of motivation that emphasizes the fact that as we pursue the fulfillment of basic needs, we are motivated by different types of motivation that come from both our self and outside world.  
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show A goal or desire that we are motivated to fulfill.  
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show Motivation that comes from within the person.  
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Extrinsic motivation   show
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Hierarchy of needs   show
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show The need to reach our full potential as a human being.  
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show The theory that our body has a particular weight that it seeks to maintain.  
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show A hunger-stimulating hormone produced by the stomach.  
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Peptide YY   show
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show A hormone released by the small intestines that plays a role in hunger regulation.  
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show The form of sugar that the body burns as fuel.  
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Glycogen   show
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Leptin   show
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show A region of the hypothalamus once though to be the hunger center of the brain.  
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show The most powerful hunger stimulant known.  
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show A region of the hypothalamus that plays an indirect role in creating a feeling of satiety.  
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show Having a mass index of 30 or over.  
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Basal metabolic rate   show
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Binge eating disorder   show
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Intracellular fluid   show
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show The fluid found in the spaces between cells of the body and that is used to regulate thirst.  
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show Theory of motivation that states that the body will counteract effects of ingested drugs by adjusting arousal level opposite of drugs effect.  
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show A complex reaction to some internal or external event that involves physiological reactions, behavioral reactions, facial expressions, cognition, and effective responses.  
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show The subjective experience of what you are feeling during the emotion.  
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show A theory of emotion that defines an emotion as a unique pattern of physiological arousal.  
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show A theory of emotion that states that emotions originate in the brain, not the body.  
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Facial feedback hypothesis   show
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Two-factor theory   show
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Cognitive-mediational theory   show
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show The idea that the more one is exposed to something, the more one grows to like it.  
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Basic emotions   show
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Display rules   show
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