Exam 8: Motivation and Emotion

Each of the following is true of Plutchik's theory of emotions except ________.

Verbal reports provide the most accurate cues to emotional states.

The major difference in animal and human sex drives is that ________.

The male sex hormone, testosterone, is all that determines a person's sex drive.

Maslow believed that higher motives appear only after the lower ones have been satisfied.

George spends an inordinate amount of time working out at his health club. Despite the fact that he is already well-muscled, he constantly frets and worries that he is too "puny" and not "manly" enough. His behavior is typical of someone with ________.

The Yerkes-Dodson Law states ________.

Among pygmy chimpanzees, about ________ percent of all observed sexual activity is between members of the same sex.

In the ________ phase of the sexual response cycle, sexual tension levels off, breathing becomes more rapid and genital secretions and muscle tension increase.

Each of the following is true except ________.

Physiological changes in the body are important in experiencing emotion.

The affiliation motive is aroused when people feel threatened.

Muscle dysmorphia is ________.

Inborn, inflexible, goal-directed behavior that is characteristic of an entire species is called a(n) ________.

Intrinsic motivation can be decreased by rewards, but can also be unaffected.

Primary drives are ________.

The human sex drive is powerfully affected by hormones.

Chemicals that stimulate sexual readiness through the sense of smell are ________.

Both motives and emotions move us toward some ________.

Robert Plutchik proposed that human beings have ________ basic emotions.