Exam 9: Motivation and Emotion

How fast or slow your body burns calories to produce energy depends on

Contrary to Schachter and Singer, Lazarus believes that when faced with a stimulus or event,

The fact that organisms often engage in behaviours that increase rather than reduce tension contradicts

Which of the following statements does not reflect the role genes play in body weight?

Which theory states that in order to experience an emotion, we must first feel physiological arousal and second, have an explanation for the arousal in order to label the emotion?

Which of the following theories suggests that motivation is basically a process in which various biological needs push or drive us to actions designed to satisfy these biological needs?

Stomach contractions (hunger pangs) may not be necessary in the perception of hunger because researchers found that

Which theory suggests that our subjective reaction and the internal state of arousal occur at the same time?

Physiological arousal, cognitive appraisal, and outward expression are three components of the state called an

Emotions are composed of three components-the physical, the cognitive, and the behavioural.

A state of homeostasis is necessary for

Which theory of emotion holds that we feel a true emotion only when we become physically aroused and can identify some cause for the arousal?

Which of the following best describes extrinsic motivation?

The appearance of food, the odour of food cooking, and even the sight of others eating are cues that trigger insulin release and thus overeating in

Basic emotions are the set of primitive emotions that nobody actually experiences, since all our emotions are combinations of this basic set.

The desire to perform behaviours largely because of the inherent pleasure they yield, rather than because of any hope of external reward, is

The ventromedial hypothalamus acts as a feeding centre to trigger eating.

The condition in which sensory stimulation is reduced to a minimum or eliminated is called

Describe the nature and importance of fat cells?

Homeostasis is an undesirable biological state.