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CHAPTER 8 Vocab Flashcards

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The need to master difficult challenges, to outperform others, and to meet high standards of excellence

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Achievement motive

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An inherited characteristic that increased in a population because it helped solve a problem of survival or reproduction during the time it emerged

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Adaptation

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The need to associate with others and maintain social bonds

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Affiliation motive

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The principle class of gonadal hormones in males

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Androgens

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One or more premises used to provide support for a conclusion

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Arguments

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Premises for which no proof or evidence is offered

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Assumptions

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Orientations that locate object of thought on dimensions of judgement

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Attitudes

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The system of nerves that connect to the heart, blood vessels, smooth muscles, and glands

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Autonomic nervous system

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Persons who seek emotional-sexual relationships with members of either sex

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B I S E X U A L S

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Weight (in kilos) divided by height (in meters) squared

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BMI

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Putting group goals ahead of personal goals nd defining one’s identity in terms of the groups one belongs to

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Collectivism

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The percentage of win pairs or other pairs of relative that exhibit the same disorder

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Concordance rate

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Behaving differently, usually unfairly, toward members of a group

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Discrimination

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Cultural norms that regulate the appropriate expressions of emotions

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Display rules

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An internal state of tension that motivates an organism to engage in activities that should reduce the tension

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Drive

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A subjective conscious experience (the cognitive component) accompanied by bodily arousal (the physiological component) and by characteristic overt expressions (behavioural component)

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Emotion

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the principal class of gonadal hormones in females

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Estrogens

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People who tend to be interested in the external world of people and things

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Etraverts

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The largest and most complicated region of the brain - encompassing a variety of structures including the thalamus, hypothalamus, limbic system, and cerebrum

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Forebrain

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An increase in the electrical conductivity of the skin that occurs when sweat glands increase their activity

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Galvanic skin response (GSR)

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A simple sugar that is an important source of energy

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Glucose

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Neurons sensitive to glucose in the surrounding fluid

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Glucostats

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An effect that occurs when the mental scale that people use to judge the pleasantness-unpleasantness of their experience shifts so that their neutral point or baseline for comparison changes

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Hedonic adaptation

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Persons who seek emotional-sexual relationships with members of the other sex

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Heterosexual

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A state of physiological equilibrium or stability

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Homeostasis

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Persons who seek emotional-sexual relationships with members of the same sex

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Homosexual

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A structure found near the base of the forebrain that is involved in the regulation of basic biological needs

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Hypothalamus

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An external goal that has the capacity to motivate behaviour

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Incentive

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Putting personal goals ahead of group goals and defining one’s identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group memberships

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Individualism

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Polygraph

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Lie detector

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Goal-directed behavior

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Motivation

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The condition of being overweight

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Obesity

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The branch of the autonomic nervous system that generally conserves bodily resources

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The branch of the autonomic nervous system generally conserves bodily resources

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What each sex in terms time, energy, survival risk, and forgone opportunities to produce and nurture offspring

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Parental investment

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An individual’s unique constellation of consistent behavioral traits

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Personality

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The master gland of the endocrine system; it releases fa great variety of hormones that fan out through the body, stimulating actions in the other endocrine glands

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Pituitary gland

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A device that records autonomic fluctuations while a subject is questioned in an effort to determine whether the subjects is telling the truth

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Polygraph

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The reasons presented to persuade someone that a conclusion that is true or probably true

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Premises

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Psychological tests that ask, subjects to respond vague ambiguous stimuli ways that reveal the subjects’ needs feelings, and personality traits

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Projective traits

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The idea that weight tends to drift around a level at which the constellation of factors that determine food consumption and energy expenditure achieve an equilibrium

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Settling point theory

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The idea the bod monitors fat-cell levels to keep them (and weight) fairy stable

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Set point theory

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A person’s preference for emotional sexual relationships with individuals of the same sex, the other sex, or either sex

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Sexual orientation

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Individuals’ perceptions of their overall happiness and life satisfaction

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Subjective well-being

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The branch of the autonomic nervous system that mobilizes the body’s resources for emergencies

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Sympathetic division

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A structure in the forebrain through which all sensory (except smell) must pass to get to the cerebral cortex

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Thalamus

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Engorgement of blood vessels

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Vasocongestion

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