Exam 8: Motivation and Emotion

Blood levels of the hormone leptin are directly correlated with the amount of fat in the body.

Your younger brother used your new computer and somehow managed to permanently erase all your personal files, including one containing a 10-page term paper due tomorrow! According to the text, the anger you now feel involves:

Which component of emotion is the MOST difficult to detect or establish as being present in nonhuman animals?

What of the following best defines satiation?

Achievement motivation refers to motivated behavior directed toward excelling, succeeding, or outperforming others at some task.

Because of testicular cancer, 35-year-old Joshua had to have his testicles removed. Research suggests that:

You take a seat on a crowded bus, and overhear the woman behind you having a spirited conversation on her cell phone in a foreign language. Although you can't see her face or understand a word she's saying, you can:

Trying to get by on less sleep is a relatively effective strategy to curb a person's appetite and eat less.

Most emotion researchers agree that the basic emotions are:

______ suggest(s) that behavior is motivated by the pull of external goals, such as rewards.

After watching the CNN reporter announce the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision in the Jones vs. California case, Hunter reacted by spewing out a string of profanities while Christopher kept shouting, "Yes! Yes! Yes!" Although Hunter and Christopher both experienced similar physiological arousal to identical information, they had two very different emotional reactions. This example poses a major problem for the cognitive appraisal theory of emotion.

According to research described in the Focus on Neuroscience box "Emotions and the Brain," sadness, happiness, anger, and fear each produce:

List and explain at least three distinct functions of emotion, giving examples of each function.

Approximately _____ of American adults are considered to be overweight and another _____ are considered to be obese.

Walking home late at night after watching a scary movie at a friend's house, Ashley suddenly hears a strange, shrill noise that almost sounds like a distant scream. Her heartbeat and blood pressure increase, her muscles tense, her mouth goes dry, and she begins to perspire. Ashley is experiencing the _____ component of emotion that is due to the activation of her _____.

The view that expressing a specific emotion, especially facially, causes the subjective experience of that emotion is called the facial feedback hypothesis.

Your typical or average body weight is called your:

Which of the following is the correct sequence of stages of human sexual response?

Dr. Pierpoint believes that people are motivated to maintain an optimal level of arousal. When the level of arousal is too low, we try to increase it by seeking out stimulating experiences. When it is too high, we seek to reduce arousal in a less stimulating environment. Dr. Pierpoint's views are most consistent with:

Of the theories of motivation that are discussed in your textbook, Deci and Ryan's self-determination theory has the MOST in common with: