You bring a package home from the department store and your dog immediately jumps on you to investigate it; your 3-year-old niece comes to visit and opens all your kitchen cupboards to see what is inside; on a television documentary program, you see a monkey trying to open a box left in its cage.All of these are examples of ________.
A)a lack of discipline
B)sensation-seeking behavior
C)the achievement motive
D)the arousal motive

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These examples illustrate the arousal motive, which is the drive to seek out new and different things for the purpose of stimulation and exploration.

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