AP Psychology - Chapter 12: motivation and work

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achievement motivation anorexia nervosa

a desire for significant accomplishment: for mastery of things, people, or ideas; for attaining a high standard an eating disorder in which a normalweight person diets and becomes significantly underweight, yet, still feeling fat, continues to starve the body's resting rate of energy expenditure an eating disorder characterized by episodes of overeating, usually of high-calorie foods, followed by vomiting, laxative use, fasting, or excessive exercise the idea that a physiological need creates an aroused tension state (a drive) that motivates an organism to satisfy the need a sex hormone, secreted in greater amounts by females than by males. In nonhuman female mammals, estrogen levels peak during ovulation, promoting sexual receptivity. a completely involved, focused state of consciousness, with diminished awareness of self and time, resulting from optimal engagement of one's skills the form of sugar that circulates in the blood and provides the major source of energy for body tissues Maslow's pyramid of human needs, beginning at the base with physiological needs that must first be satisfied before higher-level safety needs and then psychological needs become active a tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal state; the regulation of any aspect of body chemistry, such as blood glucose, around a particular level a positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behaviour the application of psychological concepts and methods to optimizing human behaviour in workplaces a complex behaviour that is rigidly patterned throughout a species and is unlearned a need or desire that energizes and directs behaviour

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organizational psychology

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a subfield of I/O psychology that examines organizational influences on worker satisfaction and productivity and facilitates organizational change a subfield of I/O psychology that focuses on employee recruitment, selection, placement, training, appraisal, and development a resting period after orgasm, during which a man cannot achieve another orgasm the point at which an individual's "weight thermostat" is supposedly set a problem that consistently impairs sexual arousal or functioning an enduring sexual attraction toward members of either one's own sex or the other sex the four stages of sexual responding described by Masters an Johnson excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution group-oriented leadership that builds teamwork, mediates conflict, and offers support interview process that asks the same jobrelevant questions of all applicants, each of whom is rated on established scales goal-oriented leadership that sets standards, organizes work, and focuses attention on goals assumes that workers are basically lazy, error-prone, and extrinsically motivated by money, and should be directed from above. assumes that, given challenge and freedom, workers are motivated to achieve self-esteem and to demonstrate their competence and creativity.

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personnel psychology refractory period set point sexual disorder sexual orientation sexual response cycle social leadership structural interviews task leadership Theory X

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