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motivation   show
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show a state of the body causing feelings, such as hope, fear, or love  
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show 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   show
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show unit in the brain that registers and controls activity level, increases excitement, and helps generate sleep  
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show gland that controls other glands and hormones, as well as producing its own hormone that regulates growth  
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show glands that secrete adrenaline, which stirs up the body, changing breathing, perspiration, heart rate, and so on  
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gonads   show
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testes   show
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ovaries   show
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androgens   show
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estrogen   show
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drives   show
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show the target of a set of behaviors  
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show bodily process of maintaining a balanced internal state  
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blood-sugar level   show
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glucose   show
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set point   show
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show a drive that moves a person to seek new and different things  
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show a drive that moves a person to handle and use objects in the environment  
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intrinsic motivation   show
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show motivation that comes from outside the individual  
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contact comfort   show
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show 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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show needs at the bottom of Maslow's hierarchy: hunger and thirst  
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safety needs   show
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show needs at the third level of Maslow's hierarchy: friendship, closeness with another  
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show need at the fourth level of Maslow's hierarchy: liking and respecting yourself, feeling important and useful  
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show needs at the top of Maslow's hierarchy: establishing meaningful goals and a purpose in life  
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need for affiliation   show
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need for approval   show
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show psychological need for personal accomplishment  
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opponent-process theory   show
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cognition   show
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show the ability to properly feel, deal with, and recognize emotions  
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show theory of emotion proposing that first the body responds and THEN one feels the emotion  
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show 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   show
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three theories of emotion   show
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show a concept requiring a belief in something that cannot be seen or touched but that seems to exist  
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show the organism's awareness of, or possibility of knowing, what is happening inside or outside itself  
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subconscious   show
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unconscious   show
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biological clocks   show
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free-running cycles   show
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show the process of altering the free-running cycle to fit a different rhythm  
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show sequences of behavioral changes that occur every 24 hours  
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twilight state   show
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show rapid eye movement sleep; the stage of sleep when dreams occur  
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beta waves   show
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alpha waves   show
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show slow, lazy, deep-sleep brain waves  
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NREM sleep   show
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nightmare   show
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REM rebound   show
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show a horrible dream occurring during NREM, when the body is not prepared for it; also called an incubus attack  
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insomnia   show
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narcolepsy   show
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show condition in which a person's breathing often stops while the person is asleep  
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hypnosis   show
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trance   show
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meditation   show
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