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The need to master difficult challenges, to outperform others, and to meet high standards of
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| An inherited characteristic that increased in a population (through natural selection) because it helped solve a problem of survival or reproduction during the time it emerged. |
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| The need to associate with others and maintain social bonds. |
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| The principal class of gonadal hormones in males. |
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| One or more premises used to provide support for a conclusion. |
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| Premises for which no proof or evidence is offered. |
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| Orientations that locate objects of thought on dimensions of judgment. |
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| Autonomic nervous system (ANS) |
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| The system of nerves that connect to the heart, blood vessels, smooth muscles, and glands. |
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| Persons who seek emotional-sexual relationships with members of either sex. |
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| Weight (in kilograms) divided by height (in meters) squared (kg/m2). |
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| Putting group goals ahead of personal goals and defining one's identity in terms of the groups one belongs to. |
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| The percentage of twin pairs or other pairs of relatives that exhibit the same disorder. |
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| Behaving differently, usually unfairly, toward the members of a group. |
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| Cultural norms that regulate the appropriate expressions of emotions. |
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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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| A subjective conscious experience (the cognitive component) accompanied by bodily arousal (the physiological component) and by characteristic overt expressions (the behavioral component). |
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| The principal class of gonadal hormones in females. |
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| People who tend to be interested in the external world of people and things. |
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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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| Galvanic Skin response (GSR) |
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An increase in the electrical conductivity of the skin that occurs when sweat glands increase their
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| A simple sugar that is an important source of energy. |
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| Neurons sensitive to glucose in the surrounding fluid. |
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An effect that occurs when the mental scale that people use to judge the pleasantness-
unpleasantness of their experiences shifts so that their neutral point, or baseline for comparison, changes. |
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| Persons who seek emotional-sexual relationships with members of the other sex. |
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| A state of physiological equilibrium or stability. |
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| Persons who seek emotional-sexual relationships with members of the same sex. |
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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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| An external goal that has the capacity to motivate behaivor. |
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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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| The condition of being overweight. |
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| The branch of the autonomic nervous system that generally conserves bodily resources. |
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What each sex invests-in terms of time, energy, survival risk, and forgone opportunities-to
produce and nurture offspring. |
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| An individual's unique constellation of consistent behavioral traits. |
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| The “master gland“ of the endocrine system; it releases a great variety of hormones that fan out through the body, stimulating actions in the other endocrine glands. |
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| A device that records autonomic fluctuations while a subject is questioned, in an effort to determine whether the subject is telling the truth. |
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| The reasons presented to persuade someone that a conclusion is true or probably true. |
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| Psychological tests that ask subjects to respond to vague, ambiguous stimuli in ways that may reveal the subjects' needs, feelings, and personality traits. |
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| The idea that the body monitors fat-cell levels to keep them (and weight) fairly stable). |
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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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A person's preference for emotional and sexual relationships with individuals of the same sex, the
other sex, or either sex. |
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| Individuals' perceptions of their overall happiness and life satisfaction. |
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The branch of the autonomic nervous system that mobilizes the body's resources for
emergencies. |
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| A structure in the forebrain through which all sensory information (except smell) must pass to get to the cerebral cortex. |
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| Engorgement of blood vessels. |
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