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  1. Define motivation and emotion, and discuss the role of each in human behavior.
  2. Describe and distinguish among instinct, drive-reduction, arousal, incentive, and cognitive theories of motivation.
  3. Explain Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
  4. Define obesity; differentiate between biological and social factors associated with hunger; and discuss the roots of obesity.
  5. Describe the eating disorders anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and exercise bulimia, and discuss possible causes for these disorders.
  6. Indicate the most effective behaviors associated with weight loss.
  7. Describe and distinguish between heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, and transsexualism.
  8. Discuss the secondary motivations of achievement, affiliation, and power.
  9. Describe the functions of emotions and the range of emotional expression.
  10. Identify the key points of the James-Lange, the Cannon-Bard, and the Schachter-Singer theories of emotion, and distinguish each theory from the others.
  11. Describe and distinguish between the facial-affect program and the facial-feedback hypothesis and how they explain cultural differences in expression of emotions.







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