How Do New Reproductive Technologies Challenge Our Understandings of Family

question 11

Essay

How do new reproductive technologies challenge our understandings of family?

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Definitions:

Excitatory Potential

The likelihood that a specific event will elicit a specific response.

Drive Reduction

A theory of motivation suggesting that behaviors are motivated by the desire to reduce internal states of tension.

Incentive Motivation

The idea that the level of motivation is affected by magnitude of reward: The greater the reward magnitude, the higher the motivation to obtain that reward.