Exam 12: Motivation and Emotion

This theory that you perceive an event, your body reacts, and then you interpret the bodily changes as a specific emotion.

Victor regularly engages in periods where he will eat thousands of calories at one sitting.After such eating, he feels bloated, guilty, and ashamed, but he does not engage in any attempts to rid himself of the food (vomiting, using laxatives, exercising).If Victor's behavior becomes continuous, he may be diagnosed with ________.

Intrinsic motivation comes from ________.

Research has shown that people whom are experimentally induced to smile by producing vowels that cause the inner cheek muscles to rise are more likely to report themselves in a better mood.This supports the ________ theory of emotion.

A behavior pattern that is fixed, unlearned, and found in almost all members of a species is called ________.

Which of the following strategies is LEAST beneficial for Schuyler's parents to use to get Schuyler to play the violin?

Kevin was not enrolled in school, nor did he have a job that required mathematical skills or reasoning.Despite these facts, he spent several nights a week reading and solving problems in an old calculus textbook.How would you BEST explain this behavior? Kevin is ________.

Which of the following extrinsic rewards is most likely to promote enjoyment or productivity related to the stated task?

Motivation is BEST defined as ________.

In recent times, the case for instincts in humans has been supported by ________, who argue that states like competitiveness and aggression may also be instinctual.

Organisms are motivated to achieve and maintain an ideal or optimal level of stimulation that maximizes their performance according to ________ theory.

________ refers to the desire to perform an act for its own sake, whereas ________ refers to the desire to perform an act because of external factors, such as rewards and punishments.

According to the cognitive theory of motivation, ________ influence our goal-directed behavior.

The heat generated in response to food ingestion is called ________.

Which of the following is characteristic of anorexia nervosa?

The brain's "eating center" is found ________.

Which of the following is TRUE regarding the arousal motive?

According to the cognitive theory of motivation, which of the following students is MOST likely to study hard for the next psychology exam?

What role does the stomach play in feelings of hunger?

You bring a package home from the department store and your dog immediately jumps on you to investigate it; your 3-year-old niece comes to visit and opens all your kitchen cupboards to see what is inside; on a television documentary program, you see a monkey trying to open a box left in its cage.All of these are examples of ________.