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Need

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Any condition within the person that is essential and necessary for growth, well-being, and life

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What happens when needs are nurtured and satisfied?

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Growth occurs, life is maintained, and well being is enhanced

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What happens when needs are neglected or frustrated?

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Need’s thwarting will produce damage that disrupts biological or psychological well-beign

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What do motivational states provide for needs?

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The impetus to pursue growth and to act before damage occurs to psychological and bodily well-being

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2 types of needs

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Biological needs and psychological needs

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3 types of biological needs

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Thirst, hunger, sex

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Where are biological needs inherent?

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Within the workings of biological systems

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3 types of psychological needs

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Autonomy, competence, relatedness

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Where are psychological needs inherent?

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Within the strivings of human nature and healthy development

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Thirst

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Consciously experienced motivational state that readies the person to perform behaviours necessary to replenish a water deficit

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Hunger

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Hunger and eating involve a complex regulatory system of short-term (hormonal), long-term (fat cells), and environmental regulation

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Sex

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Sexual motivation rises and falls in response to a host of factors, including hormones, external stimulation, external cues (facial metrics), cognitive scripts, sexual schemas, and evolutionary process

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Need-drive behaviour sequence

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Satiated state
Physiological deprivation develops gradually
Prolonged physiological deprivation produces bodily need
Need intensifies; gives rise to psychological drive
Goal-directed motivated behaviour occurs as attempt to gratify drive
Consummatory behaviour occurs
Drive is reduced

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What 7 core processes does the cyclical pattern depicting the rise and fall of psychological drive involve?

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Biological need
Psychological drive
Homeostasis
Negative feedback
Multiple inputs/multiple outputs
Intra-organismic mechanisms
Environmental influences

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What kind of variable can drive be considered?

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Intervening variable

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5 aspects related to thirst

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Biological regulation
Thirst activation
Thirst satiety
Hypothalamus and kidneys
Environmental influences

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Fluid homeostasis

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Various fluid compartments in the body (2/3 of fluid is intracellular, 1/3 of fluid is extracellular)

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What is volume of intracellular fluid regulated by?

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Concentration of solutes in the interstitial fluids (Na = biggest factor)

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What is fluid homeostasis normally?

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Isotonic, meaning same osmotic pressure inside and outside a cell
Different ions on each side, but it balances out

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Solute concentration

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Tightly regulated
Na+ cannot cross membranes freely, so water moves to balance osmotic forces
High extracellular Na+: Water leaves cell
Low extracellular Na+: Water enters the cell

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Control mechanisms for thirst

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Solute concentration
Fluid volume

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Solute concentration as a control mechanism

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Kidneys and drinking regulate Na+ and water levels to maintain optimal solute concentration

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Fluid volume as a control mechanism

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Kidneys and drinking also maintains optimal vascular tone
Prevents high/low blood pressure

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What 2 classes of receptors to monitor system of thirst?

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Cell volume
Blood volume

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2 correctional mechanisms
Ingestion/excretion of water Ingestion/excretion of Na+
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Excretion of water and Na+ is done by?
Kidneys
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Ingestion of water and N mechanisms
Thirst and salt appetite
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Kidneys
Deal with excess water and Na+ Maintains optimal conditions
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Name and explain 2 main control mechanisms of kidneys
Aldosterone: secreted by adrenal cortex Vasopressin (antidiuretic hormone): secreted by posterior pituitary
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Levels of aldosterone
High = retain Na+ Low = excrete Na+
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Levels of vasopressin
High = retain water Low = excrete water
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2 types of thirst
Osmotic thirst Volumetric thirst
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Osmotic thirst
Due to an increase in interstitial tonicity Water leaves the cell and the cell shrinks Occurs when there is a greater concentration of solutes outside the cell than inside
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Volumetric thirst
Due to loss of extracellular volume Bleeding, vomiting, diarrhea, edema Both water and salt are lost from the extracellular space No osmotic change, concentration of salt in extracellular fluid is the same, volume less
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Increase of what leads to osmotic thirst? What happens next?
Increase in extracellular Na+ Water leaves intracellular space to balance osmotic forces Kidneys kick into high gear to get rid of excess Na+ and excess extracellular water
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Why is thirst initiated in osmotic thirst?
To correct imbalance
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Where are the osmoreceptors? How are they activated?
Circumventricular organs Change in cell volume activates cells in these regions
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What do the osmoreceptors induce?
VP release from posterior pituitary
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Where are the 3 receptors for hypovolemia?
Kidneys Baroreceptors in the heart
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How do the kidneys act as a receptor for hypovolemia
Secrete renin in response to drop in blood volume Renin converts angiotensin I into angiotensin II
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5 ways angiotensin II corrects hypovolemia
Stimulates the adrenal cortex to secrete aldosterone: Preserves Na+ Stimulates the posterior pituitary to secrete VP: Preserves water Increases blood pressure with vasoconstriction Initiates thirst Initiates salt appetite
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How do the baroreceptors in the heart act as a receptor for hypovolemia
Detect pressure of returning venous blood Low volume = low pressure More blood = high volume = high pressure Regulates fluid balance through innervation sent to brain
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Satiety for water
To deal with an osmotic thirst challenge, it takes about 2-3 mins to consume the water you need This water will start to enter your circulatory system in ~10-12 mins Your ideal set point will be reached in about 40-45 mins Drinking stops in anticipation of the need being met You stop when you have enough water on board, but before the imbalance has been corrected
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Are the mouth and throat implicated in the satiety mechanism?
Taste and swallowing contributes a little Study: Thirsty rat preloaded with 14 mL of water by mouth or directly to stomach --> the stomach-preloaded group drinks more afterwards
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Are stomach cues implicated in the satiety mechanism?
No Pyloric cuff closes off pylorus Stomach can't empty The animal will drink and the stomach can get quite distended, yet drinking persists
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Is the duodenum implicated in the satiety mechanism?
Maybe, no good evidence, but it's possible
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Is the liver implicated in the satiety mechanism? How?
Yes, all nutrients collected in the stomach and intestines first pass through liver before getting distributed to the rest of the body Inject water into portal vein --> thirsty rat stops drinking Cut vagus nerve --> rat drinks more than expected
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Environmental influences of thirst
Taste is rewarding - water becomes more hedonically positive with increased deprivation, sweet taste can cause overdrinking Psychoactive components of drinks can be addictive (OH and caffeine) Social and cultural influences can influence drinking
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How does the CNS regulate energy and nutrients?
Energy and nutrients are vital to life --> can't afford to run out CNS anticipates needs and motivates behaviour to maintain the right amount of reserves: too little = risk running out; too much = risk being encumbered by reserves CNS regulates energy and nutrient levels CNS regulates eating and digestion
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Energy usage
Large carbohydrate molecules are broken down into simple sugars
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What is glucose? How is it stored?
Only fuel that brain can use Stored in liver as glycogen
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What does insulin signal?
To store glucose as glycogen
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What does glucagon signal?
To mobilize glycogen as glucose
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Mobilization of stored energy
NS can signal the release of energy from fat stores White adipose gets sympathetic innervation Denervation leads to an increase in number and size of fat cells Stimulation of these inputs leads to breakdown of fat in adipose cells
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Why is insulin needed?
To chaperone glucose into cells Brain doesn't need insulin, glucose freely enters neural tissue
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Name the 3 phases of insulin regulation
Cephalic phase Digestive phase Absorptive phase
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Cephalic phase of insulin regulation
Conditioned release triggered by food cues
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Digestive phase of insulin regulation
Food in stomach and intestines triggers release of gut hormones, which trigger insulin release
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Absorptive phase of insulin regulation
Glucodetectors in liver signal insulin release when glucose levels are high
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Type 1 Diabetes
Child onset diabetes Pancreas stops making insulin High levels of circulating glucose, which can't be stored
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Type 2 Diabetes
Adult-onset diabetes Cells become less sensitive/insensitive to insulin, or production of insulin decreases
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Insulin as a feeding/satiety signal
Insulin release is related to circulating glucose and is part of the signal to start/stop eating
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High insulin
Lots of glucose, stop eating
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Low insulin
Little glucose, be hungry
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What happens when a little insulin is injected into an animal?
Feeding will stop
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What happens when insulin is blocked in an animal?
Animal will start eating
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What happens when a lot of insulin is injected into an animal?
Glucose is moved into liver and stored, so blood levels of glucose drop, and eating resumes
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Is circulating glucose a signal to stop/start eating?
Presence of glucose should turn off hunger, and absence should activate it Hypoglycemia is associated with hunger
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Explain diabetic rats in relation to circulating glucose
Diabetic rats have low insulin and high glucose and are chronically hungry But if they are fed a high fat diet, they eat a normal amount; can make immediate use of fatty acids without use of insulin
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Hypothalamic regulation of hunger
Key to regulating hunger Complicated system with many redundancies
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Old hypothesis about the hypothalamic regulation of hunger
Dual-centre Motivated state was a balance between the hunger centre (lateral hypothalamus) and the satiety centre (ventromedial hypothalamus)
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What centre is the paraventricular nucleus?
Satiety centre
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What kind of centre is the arcuate nucleus?
Main hunger centre
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Set point theory test
Does lesioning the MNH or LH just change the set point? Starve animal before LH lesion Overfeed animal before VMH lesion Should have little or no effect on these rats because they are already at the new set-point
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What does the study on the set point theory tell us?
There is no one hunger centre
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Peripheral signals: Leptin
Produced by fat cells Levels are proportional to body fat: acts as an off switch
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Mouse model on leptin Human relation?
Defective leptin gene Give them leptin, reduces obesity Small minority of morbidly obese people have a defective leptin gene
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Peripheral signals: Ghrelin
Released into bloodstream by endocrine cells in the stomach Appetite stimulant Levels rise during fasting and drop after a meal
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Ghrelin and obesity
In obesity, ghrelin levels don't drop after eating --> keeps stimulating appetite
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Obesity
Increased body weight that is of sufficient magnitude to produce averse health consequences
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Examples of adverse health consequences caused by obesity
Heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, premature death, some cancers
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Epigenetics of obesity
70% genetic, 30% behavioural-environmental
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Which provinces have the highest prevalence of obesity?
NB and NL
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What might GLP-1 receptor agonists play a role in?
Regulating motivation and emotional states
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Negative impacts of GLP-1 receptors agonists
Cases of increased anxiety or worsening mood
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What can weight loss success enhance?
Feelings of competence and increasing self-efficacy
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What can weight loss success deepen? Caveat?
Intrinsic motivation to maintain a healthy lifestyle However, if motivation becomes too reliant on external factors (medication, social validation, appearance concerns) intrinsic motivation may weaken over time
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What effects do medications like Ozempic mimic?
Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1)
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Where is GLP-1 produced?
In the intestines
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Name 4 things GLP-1 plays a key role in
Stimulating insulin release Inhibiting glucagon release Slowing gastric emptying Appetite regulation
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Stimulating insulin release
GLP-1 helps regulate blood sugar by stimulating insulin secretion from the pancreas when blood sugar levels are elevated
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Inhibiting glucagon release
GLP-1 agonists inhibit the release of glucagon, a hormone that raises blood sugar levels
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Slowing gastric emptying
Ozempic slows the rate at which food moves through the stomach, which helps you feel full for longer periods
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Appetite regulation
Ozempic also impacts areas of the brain responsible for hunger It promotes a feeling of satiety, making it easier to reduce calorie intake
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Name 3 reasons why weight loss is so hard?
Counterforce to caloric restriction Counterforce to caloric burn Counterforce to caloric restriction through environmental events
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Counterforce to caloric restriction
When the body detects caloric restriction, it releases ghrelin into the bloodstream, a potent hunger-stimulating hormone that puts pressure on the person to eat
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Counterforce to caloric burn
When a person exercises vigorously, they often compensate for that caloric burn by eating something extra and decrease the extent of their physical activity for the rest of the day
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Counterforce to caloric restriction through environmental events
Many stimulate eating - the easy availability, accessibility, affordability, and advertising to promote high caloric foods
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5 processes involved in sex
Physiological regulation Facial metrics Sexual scripts Sexual orientation Evolutionary basis of sexual motivation
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Physiological regulation of sex
Sex hormones, gender differences in strength of sex drive, brain's reward circuitry
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Sexual scripts
How we rehearse sexual encounters in our brains Men: Sexually attractive person - arousal builds Women: Intimacy is important
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Evolutionary basis of sexual motivation
Men: Physical characteristics, attractiveness Women: Status, ability to provide
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Traditional sex response cycle in men
Desire Arousal Orgasm Resolution
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Alternative sex response cycle in women
Intimacy needs Being open and receptive to sexual stimuli Arousal Desire Enhanced intimacy
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3 reasons people fail at self-regulation of biological needs
People routinely underestimate how powerful a motivational force biological urges can be when they are not currently experiencing them People can lack standards, or they have inconsistent, conflicting, unrealistic, or inappropriate standards People fail to monitor what they are doing as they become distracted, preoccupied, overwhelmed, or intoxicated

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