Exam 11: Motivation and Emotion

Which of the following shows a focus on the lowest of Maslow's hierarchy of needs?

Procrastination is least likely to occur with which combination of motivation and goal for completing the project?

What happens when researchers induce mortality salience using essay writing procedures?

In what order do the phases of the sexual response cycle occur?

Schachter proposed that two things have to happen before emotion occurs: _____ and _____.

Based on results from surveys about people's motivation for sex, it can be concluded that:

The final phase of the sexual response is

The three major components that psychologists focus on when defining "emotion" are

There is fairly strong evidence that sexual orientation is heritable in women.

Hunger and thirst are examples of

"Becoming what one ought to be" is one way to define _______.

Research into the sexual response cycle of men and women has revealed some surprising similarities and differences. Describe some of these similarities and differences.

According to the two-factor theory of emotion, appraisal of the situation would come _______ the physical arousal and _______ the experience of emotion.

Certain emotions are associated with certain patterns of _____________, which explains why our heart races and our palms sweat when we are nervous or fearful.

Three-year-old Javier sees his dad dressed up as a gorilla and Javier screams in fear. What brain structure is probably involved in his reaction?

The polygraph detects the physiological patterns of responses that are specific to lying.

According to your textbook, ______________ is a risk factor for illnesses such as heart disease and cancer, and elevates a person's risk for having hypertension, a weaker immune system, and high levels of stress hormones.

Compared to people from Western countries, People from Asia tend to judge the emotions of a person in a photograph based on

Controlled studies of polygraph recordings indicate that they should be most accurately described as detecting _____.

Sexual orientation is defined primarily by whether or not an individual engages in same sex behavior.