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A complex behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species and is unlearned.

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Instinct

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A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior

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Motivation

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The idea that a psychological need creates an aroused tensions state a drive that motivates an organism to satisfy the need

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Drive reduction theory

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Maintain a balanced internal state

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Homeostasis

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A + or - environmental stimulus that motivates behavior

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Incentive

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Not all behaviors are physiological. Curiosity driven behaviors suggest too little or too much stimulation can motivate people to seek optimum level of arousal.

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Optimum Arousal Theory

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Hierarchy of needs

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Abraham Maslows

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Weight thermostat is supposedly at. Our ideal weight.

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Set point

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A problem that consistently impairs sexual arousal or functioning.

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Sexual disorders

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A sex hormone secreted more in women. In animals, this peaks during ovulation and promote sexual receptivity

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Estrogen

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More prominent in males. Stimulates growth of male sex organs

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Testosterone

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An enduring sexual attraction to ones own sex or the other sex.

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Sexual orientation

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Maslows pyramid of human needs, beginning with psychological needs that must be satisfied before the other needs

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Hierarchy of needs

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Form of sugar that circulates in the blood and provides the major source of energy for blood tissues. When it’s level is low we feel hunger

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Glucose

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The body’s resting rate of energy expenditure

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Basal metabolic rate

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An eating disorder where a normal weight person starves themselves and continues to perceive themselves as fat.

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Anorexia

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An eating disorder characterized by episodes of overrating followed by vomiting

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Bulimia

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The four stages of sexual responding described by masters and Johnson - excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution

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Sexual response cycle

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A resting period after an orgasm where a man cannot achieve another orgasm

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Refractory period

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A completely involved, focused state of consciousness, with diminished awareness of self and time, resulting from optimal engagement of ones skills

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Flow

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The application of psychological concepts and methods to optimizing human behavior and behavior in work places

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Industrial organizational psychology

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A us field of I/O psychology the focuses on employee recruitment, selection, placement, training, appraisal, and development

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Personnel psychology

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A sub field of I/O psychology that examines organizational influences on worker satisfaction and productivity and facilitates organizational charge.

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Organizational psychology

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Interview process that asks the same job relevant questions of all applicants, each of whom is rated on established scales

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Structured interviews

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A desire for significant accomplishment; for mastery of things, people, or ideas- for attaining a high standard

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Achievement motivation

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Goal oriented leadership that sets standards, organizes work, and focuses attention on goals

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Task leadership

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Group oriented leadership that builds teamwork, mediates conflict, and offers support

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Social leadership

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He launched a controversial sex studies program and analyzed his findings in the book Sexual Behavior in the Human Male.

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Alfred Kinsey