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motivation   the drive to seek out a goal, such as food, water, or friends  
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emotion   a state of the body causing feelings, such as hope, fear, or love  
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hypothalamus   part of the lower brain that controls such basic needs and desires such as pleasure, pain, fear, rage, hunger, thirst, and sex  
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amygdala   brain structure responsible for emotional responses of aggression and fear  
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reticular formation   unit in the brain that registers and controls activity level, increases excitement, and helps generate sleep  
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pituitary gland   gland that controls other glands and hormones, as well as producing its own hormone that regulates growth  
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adrenal glands   glands that secrete adrenaline, which stirs up the body, changing breathing, perspiration, heart rate, and so on  
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gonads   the sex glands  
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testes   the male sex glands; they make sperm  
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ovaries   the female sex glands; they make eggs  
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androgens   male hormones; they control sexual interest in both males and females  
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estrogen   the hormone that controls the female reproductive cycle  
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drives   forces that push an organism into action to reach a goal  
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goal   the target of a set of behaviors  
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homeostasis   bodily process of maintaining a balanced internal state  
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blood-sugar level   the amount of sugar contained in the blood, which indicates the level of hunger  
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glucose   sugar in the blood  
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set point   the body-regulating mechanism that determines a person's typical weight  
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curiosity motive   a drive that moves a person to seek new and different things  
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manipulation motive   a drive that moves a person to handle and use objects in the environment  
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intrinsic motivation   motivation that comes from within the individual  
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extrinsic motivation   motivation that comes from outside the individual  
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contact comfort   the satisfaction obtained from pleasant, soft physical stimulation  
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hierarchy of needs   a system that ranks human needs one above the other, with the most basic needs for physical survival at the bottom of the pyramid; proposed by psychologist Abraham Maslow  
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physiological needs   needs at the bottom of Maslow's hierarchy: hunger and thirst  
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safety needs   needs at the second level of Maslow's hierarchy: shelter, nest egg of money  
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belongingness needs   needs at the third level of Maslow's hierarchy: friendship, closeness with another  
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self-esteem needs   need at the fourth level of Maslow's hierarchy: liking and respecting yourself, feeling important and useful  
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self-actualization needs   needs at the top of Maslow's hierarchy: establishing meaningful goals and a purpose in life  
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need for affiliation   psychological need to belong to and identify with groups  
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need for approval   psychological need to have other people think highly of oneself  
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need for achievement   psychological need for personal accomplishment  
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opponent-process theory   theory that the presence of one emotion triggers its opposite, which then emerges somewhat later  
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cognition   higher-order thought processes, such as reasoning and problem solving  
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emotional intelligence   the ability to properly feel, deal with, and recognize emotions  
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James-Lange theory   theory of emotion proposing that first the body responds and THEN one feels the emotion  
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Cannon-Bard theory   theory of emotion proposing that the bodily reaction and the emotional response to an event occur at the same time  
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cognitive theory   theory of emotion proposed by Schachter; it holds that people label a bodily response by giving it the name of the emotion they think they are feeling  
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three theories of emotion   Cannon-Bard theory, Schachter's cognitive theory, James-Lange theory  
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construct   a concept requiring a belief in something that cannot be seen or touched but that seems to exist  
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consciousness   the organism's awareness of, or possibility of knowing, what is happening inside or outside itself  
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subconscious   consciousness just below our present awareness  
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unconscious   thoughts or desires about which we have no direct knowledge  
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biological clocks   internal chemical units that control regular cycles in parts of the body  
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free-running cycles   cycles set up by biological clocks that are under their own control, ignoring the environment  
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entrainment   the process of altering the free-running cycle to fit a different rhythm  
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circadian rhythm   sequences of behavioral changes that occur every 24 hours  
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twilight state   relaxed state just before we fall asleep  
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REM sleep   rapid eye movement sleep; the stage of sleep when dreams occur  
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beta waves   rapid brain waves; appear when a person is awake  
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alpha waves   fairly relaxed brain waves that occur in stage 1, just before we go to sleep  
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delta waves   slow, lazy, deep-sleep brain waves  
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NREM sleep   non-rapid eye movement sleep; sleep involving partial thoughts, images, or stories that are poorly organized  
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nightmare   frightening dream that occurs during REM  
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REM rebound   increase in the number of dreams after being deprived of REM sleep  
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night terror   a horrible dream occurring during NREM, when the body is not prepared for it; also called an incubus attack  
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insomnia   the inability to get enough sleep  
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narcolepsy   disorder in which a person falls instantly into sleep no matter what is going on in the environment  
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sleep apnea   condition in which a person's breathing often stops while the person is asleep  
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hypnosis   a state of relaxation in which attention is focused on certain objects, acts, or feelings  
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trance   the state of deep relaxation that can occur during hypnosis  
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meditation   a form of self-control in which the outside world is cut off from consciousness  
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