Exam 9: Motivation, Stress, and Emotion

In male identical twins, if one of the twins is gay, the other has about a ________% chance of also being gay.

Problematic functioning of which of the following hormones can lead to overeating?

Primary motives are:

Physiologically-based drives that are unlearned are called ________ drives.

Dillon's family has a history of obesity. He has __________ of becoming obese compared to people without such a family history.

Age has been shown not to be a factor in a person's desire to have sex. Which is NOT an accurate statement about sex in later life?

Unpredictability is stressful because:

Vanna's mother is ill and Vanna is feeling overwhelmed and sad. To cope with this stress of her mother's illness, Vanna has been writing her feelings down in a journal. Vanna is using ________.

The observation that people often seek stimulation and that not all motives are aroused by internal states contradicts the _______ theory of motivation.

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

Extrinsic motivation is defined as the pursuit of an activity ________.

Bill has felt isolated and like an "outsider" since coming to college for his freshman year. As a result, he decided to join a fraternity and was very excited when he was selected to pledge. According to Maslow, Bill may be attempting to meet the need of ________.

The concept of primary motives would explain our need for _______.

Which theory states that a stimulus triggers physiological changes that produce emotion?

The process by which the facial expressions send messages to the brain about the basic emotion being expressed is called ____________.

Who proposed that the human expression of emotion is innate and has survival value?

In a(n) ________ conflict, a person must choose between two desirable goals.