Exam 8: A: Motivation and Emotion

A sensation seeker is a person who only engages in extreme,potentially life-threatening acts.

Hamer and colleagues discovered that homosexuality may be transmitted by genes on the _____ chromosome which is passed from mother to son,not father to son.

Primary drives are caused by ______.

Which theory states that a stimulus triggers physiological changes that produce emotion?

Seeing a snake,and then simultaneously running away from it and becoming frightened,is the sequence of events postulated by the James-Lange theory.

In arousal theory,people are said to have a (an)_________ level of tension.

The English words motivation and emotion come from the Latin root meaning "to move."

According to drive-reduction theory,what occurs each time a behavior results in drive reduction?

Heroin addiction has been treated with _____________.

Sexual orientation refers to a concept about males or females that assigns characteristics to them on the basis of nothing more than their being male or female.

The need to take a drug in order to avoid withdrawal symptoms is called _________.

Kinsey discovered,to everyone's surprise,that only about 15 percent of people masturbated.

According to Carol Dweck,need for achievement is closely related to ________________.

One of the problems associated with asthma is that once patients experience difficulty breathing,they often make their symptoms worse by concentrating on them and/or worrying about them.Consequently,many doctors include relaxation exercises as part of a treatment program to prevent patients from making their asthmatic reactions worse.This example of how our awareness of physiological changes can influence or even cause subsequent emotions is most supportive of which of the following theories of emotion?

According to the facial feedback hypothesis,when Jose complies with instructions to look angry,it is most likely that ____________.

Drives that are learned through experience are called ______ drives.

Which of the following examples best represents the Yerkes-Dodson Law?

Some psychologists believe that an organism's behavior is motivated by the need to achieve a state of balance in which the body functions effectively-a state called ______.

According to cognitive-mediational theories,appraisal of the situation would come _______ the physical arousal and _______ the experience of emotion.

LeVay found evidence that homosexual males' brains show no differences in structure as compared to the brains of heterosexual males.