Exam 8: Emotion and Motivation-Part A

Kelly sustained a severe head injury in a skiing accident.Following a limited recovery from the accident,the family has been advised that damage to Kelly's _____ will likely make it difficult for her to inhibit her emotions.

Hormones involved in sexual interest and in the changes of puberty do NOT include:

An important difference in sexual behavior between female rats and human females is that:

The tendency for a system to keep itself in an optimal state is termed:

According to the James-Lange theory of emotion,emotional experiences are triggered by:

Which pairing is a CORRECT match of investigators and a research topic?

Researchers complained about James's concept of the instinct for a number of reasons,but NOT because:

Jerome is a professional basketball player who plays the game extremely hard because he is terrified of failing and losing his starting job.Jerome's behavior BEST illustrates:

Research has demonstrated that people with bilateral amygdala damage have problems recognizing facial emotions of both:

A person injected with ghrelin might be expected to:

Research indicates that the number-one reason given for deciding to have sex with a person among both male and female college students is:

Who conducted pioneering research on the "fast" and "slow" emotional pathways?

Certain drugs suppress the activity of the sympathetic nervous system,the branch of the autonomic nervous system associated with increases in heart rate,respiration,and adrenaline release.If a drug could block this system altogether,William James would predict that:

Anorexigenic is to orexigenic as:

The emoji :-)is a(n)_____ of happiness.

Once we gain a certain level of body fat,it is difficult to lose the fat.A key reason that our body resists weight loss is that:

A motivation of which we are unaware is a(n)_____ motivation.

Walking through the dense woods,observing the fauna,John feels something grab him from the back.His heart and respiration rate spike.Immediately thereafter,he becomes very fearful.This sequence of events BEST illustrates which theory?

An _____ motivation is a motivation to take action to earn a reward.

Tang and colleagues (2014)showed participants a variety of food items and asked them how much money they would pay to eat each item.Although participants could not accurately estimate the caloric content of the food items,the researchers found the correlation between actual caloric content and amount willing to pay was: