Exam 12: Motivation

Masters and Johnson concluded that, when it came to orgasms:

Securely attached babies are more likely to become securely attached lovers in adulthood.

Compared to one generation ago, food and drink portions in America have:

Which of the following is an example of an avoidance-avoidance conflict?

According to set point theory, biological mechanisms try to keep a person's weight within 25 percent of a target weight.

To understand the motivation to achieve, researchers today emphasize ________ rather than inner drives.

Which of the following is an example of an extrinsically motivated behavior?

When crop failures and famine are common in a country, then the cultural ideal is to be slender.

For the majority of obese people, taking leptin helps them lose weight.

In an avoidance-avoidance conflict, a person must choose the lesser of two evils.

The set-point theory has difficulty explaining why most people who diet eventually gain the weight back.

One of the most serious limitations of the work of Masters and Johnson is that:

Abraham Maslow hypothesized movement through a pyramid of needs, beginning with survival needs for sleep, food, and water and reaching needs for self-actualization.

Janet wants to be a stay-at-home mom but worries that she won't be able to return to her career. This illustrates a(n):

Which of the following is one of the reasons for rape given in the text?

________ refers to a genetically influenced weight range for an individual that is maintained by biological mechanisms that regulate food intake, fat reserves, and metabolism.

Human beings are genetically predisposed to gain weight when rich food is abundant.

The evidence suggests that rape occurs due to a man's inherent need to fertilize as many females as possible so as to better distribute their genes.

Women and men often differ in the ways that they express love, with women in many cultures using words and men expressing feelings through actions.

The pursuit of an activity for its own sake is called: