Exam 12: Motivation and Emotion

Besides fear, anger, joy, and happiness, which of the following emotions have been found by all cross-cultural researchers in this field?

________ is a feeling of fullness that has an effect on the perception of hunger.

A hormone that is produced by fat cells and gives information to the hypothalamus about the body's fat stores is ________.

In the ________ theory of motivation, a lack or a deficiency of something creates a state of tension that motivates us to reduce the deficiency.

In the classic motivation study by Lepper and others (1973), children who were ________ continued to show more of an interest in drawing than children in the other groups.

Which of the following is INCORRECTLY matched?

This is a criticism of Schachter's two-factor theory of emotion.

The polygraph detects ________ arousal.

This theory says that emotions are physiologically similar and are due to simultaneous arousal, cognitive, and behavioral expressions.

Ishaya was startled awake by a major earthquake.He immediately felt frightened, broke out in a cold sweat, and jumped out of bed to run for cover-all in the same instant.This description of Ishaya's experience BEST fits the ________ theory of emotion.

To study the cognitive component of emotions, psychologists are MOST likely to use ________ techniques.

The body's tendency to maintain a relatively stable state of internal balance, or equilibrium, is called ________.

Two parts of the brain that play an important role in emotion are the ________.

Emotion is BEST defined as ________.

The ________ motive causes us to look for a certain amount of novelty and complexity from our environment for no apparent reason.

According to ________ theory, basic survival and security needs must be satisfied before one can move on to such higher needs as belonging and love, esteem, and self-actualization.

The ________ hypothalamus signals an animal to start eating, whereas the ________ hypothalamus signals the animal to stop eating.

The theory that some motives have to be satisfied before a person can advance to fulfilling higher motives is based on ________.

According to your text, the critical factor in our future enjoyment of a task is ________.

Your best friend just won the lottery.Even though you may experience envy, you also cannot help feeling excited along with him because you are both grinning from ear to ear.This reaction supports the ________ regarding the origin and intensification of emotion.