Whenever olivia watches a television commercial featuring food, she is ridden by a desire to eat. these feelings of hunger stimulate olivia to go to the kitchen to search for food. olivia's behavior can be studied by conducting research in the area of

Motivation.

Explanation:

Motivation is an initiation of a behavior by the forces acting on a person. Its reason may come from within a person. Motivation can be seen as a performance variable where an activity caused by motivation may increase or decrease with the variability in the interest of motivation. In the above case, television commercial featuring food are the force that comes from outside and gave motivation to search for food.

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