Category: M
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Motivational force
A stimulus or stimuli that results in behavior motivation; motive.
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Motivation
An internal urge to behave may be automatic and intrinsic extrinsic as from an environmental factor, or from conscious desires and aspirations. The internal drive or externally arising stimulus to action or thought. The underlying drive behind making changes.
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Motivating factors
Items that influence the type of behavior to be performed and the degree of satisfaction received in performing the behavior.
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Motivated perception
The tendency to view people or events in self-gratifying ways.
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Motion to reconsider
In parliamentary deliberations, a motion to place the question in the same status it was in prior to the vote on the question.
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Motion study
Finding the best way to accomplish a task by analyzing the movements necessary to perform the task.
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Motion sickness
A sensation induced by repetitive motion and characterized by nausea and light-headedness. Illness and nausea felt when travelling. It is caused by the movement of liquid inside the labyrinth of the middle ear and is particularly noticeable in vehicles which are closed, such as planes, coaches or hovercraft. Condition characterized by headache, nausea, vomiting, and…
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Motion parallax
A visual cue to depth created when images of distant objects are displaced less than the images of near objects when the object themselves or the observer moves.
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Motherese
The speech pattern that adults use (esp. mothers) when talking to infants.
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Mosaicism
The presence of different chromosome numbers in different body cells. In humans, some contain 46 chromosomes, while others contain 47 chromosomes. Condition in which an organism contains two or more cell populations that differ in genetic makeup. An anomaly of chromosome division resulting in two or more types of cells containing different numbers of chromosomes;…