Exam 8: Motivation and Emotion

You can become classically conditioned so that a specific time of the day-for example, 11:30 A.M.-becomes a conditioned stimulus that triggers internal bodily changes (the conditioned response) that increase your feelings of hunger and desire to eat.

When his boss yelled at him and called him lazy and incompetent just because he was five minutes late for work, Joshua simultaneously felt embarrassment, guilt, anger, shame, and anxiety. Joshua experienced:

Intensity in motivation is seen as the:

Dr. Sheenan believes that cognitive appraisal is the essential trigger for an emotional response and that all other components of emotion, including physiological arousal, follow from the initial cognitive appraisal. Dr. Sheenan's views are most consistent with those of:

Getting too little sleep can promote weight gain by:

According to settling-point models of weight regulation, your body weight tends to settle, or stabilize, around the point at which equilibrium is achieved between energy expenditure and food consumption. Your settling-point weight will stay very stable as long as the factors influencing food consumption and energy expenditure don't change.

Desmond is sexually attracted only to members of his own sex. By definition Desmond is a:

Which of the following is FALSE regarding metabolism?

Pick a specific goal that you would like to achieve, and then discuss how you will create and use implementation intentions to help you achieve that goal.

In cross-cultural surveys on mate preferences, it was found that men were more likely than women to value youth and physical attractiveness in a potential mate.

The hormone epinephrine, more commonly known as adrenaline, activates the sympathetic nervous system.

Explain the factors that influence sexual behavior in nonhuman animals, contrasting the behavior of primates with other animal species.

In the indirect fear pathway described by Joseph LeDoux, what role does the cortex play?

Which influential scientist inspired psychologists, such as William James and William McDougal, to devise lists of instincts to account for human behavior?

In a study in which rats' brains were infused with the hormone ghrelin, the rats ate voraciously and gained weight.

The term sexual orientation describes:

The Focus on Neuroscience box "Emotions and the Brain" describes a PET scan study by researcher Antonio Damasio and his colleagues. The study found that when participants recalled an emotionally charged memory:

Rats with a damaged amygdala:

In trying to keep up with his college classes and his job at a hospital lab, Christian has been getting by on four or five hours of sleep per night for several nights. Which of the following is Christian likely to experience?

Describe what research has shown about same-sex couples and their children.