Exam 8: A: Motivation and Emotion

Channel is a 43 year old female who has been in sexual relationships with both men and women in the past.She is presently dating a 32 year old female and is thinking of moving to a state which legally recognizes the marriage between two women.She is thinking of getting married to her partner,despite still admitting that she finds both men and women attractive.Channel is considered _____________ in terms of her sexual orientation.

Twin studies suggest a genetic component to sexual orientation.

Which of the recent studies that follow casts doubt on the facial feedback hypothesis?

Salmon swimming upstream to spawn are an example of ______.

Morphine,heroin,and methadone _______________.

According to Abraham Maslow,developing one's potential to its fullest extent results in ___________.

Intrinsic motivation is one that propels a person to pursue an activity _______________.

Which theory of emotion proposes that stimuli cause physiological changes in our bodies and emotions result from those physiological changes?

What do we call biologically determined,innate patterns of behavior?

Most recent surveys indicate that __________ of men and __________ of women have had at least one homosexual experience.

Bill has felt isolated and an "outsider" since coming to college for his freshman year.As a result,he decided to rush a fraternity and was very excited when he was selected to pledge.According to Maslow,Bill may be attempting to meet the need of _______________.

A desire to perform a behavior to obtain an external reward or avoid punishment is known as ______.

The tendency of the body to maintain a steady state of functioning is called _______________.

Jerry gets a great deal of fulfillment out of visiting the new art exhibits at the museum in town.He usually visits each exhibit several times during a show and finds beauty in a variety of different types of art works.Jerry is likely to visit the new exhibits in an effort to meet a(n)_______________ need.

Which sequence of events in emotional responses is characteristic of the James-Lange theory of emotion?

LeVay discovered that an area of the __________________ is three times larger in males than females,and two to three times larger in heterosexual males as compared to homosexual males in his controversial research study.

Physical arousal has to be interpreted cognitively before it is experienced as a specific emotion,according to ____________.

Researchers have found that negative feelings such as sadness,anxiety,and depression seem to be a function of _______________.

You overhear a psychologist presenting a lecture to an introductory psychology class.The teacher mentions "purposeful or goal-directed behavior that may vary in intensity from one occasion to another." You recognize that he is talking about which type of behavior?

Lashley (1938)stated that the thalamus would have to be pretty sophisticated to make sense of all the possible emotions and relay them to the proper areas of the cortex and body.Which theory of emotion was Lashley criticizing?