Exam 11: Motivation and Emotion

From an evolutionary perspective, two of the most basic emotional responses that have strong adaptive significance and that are seen in both humans and virtually all animals are

According to Clark Hull's drive theory of motivation, various drives are produced

All of the following statements on the possible psychological causes of obesity are false EXCEPT that ___________.

A number of modern emotion theorists assert that emotional expressions

The fact that you almost instinctively jump out of the way of a car that is about to hit you and the fact that young infants clearly feel emotions even though they have yet to learn language are examples that both demonstrate how

The area of the cortex that appears to be heavily involved in the process of emotion regulation is

Describe and compare four different approaches to motivation.

Which of the following brain areas was mentioned as playing an important role with regard to emotions?

Many years ago in Italy, psychiatrists treated clinical depression with electroshock treatments. They observed that when they applied a shock treatment to a certain areas of the brain, the patients responded with a catastrophic reaction that lasted until the effects of the shock treatment wore off. The area of the brain that received the shock was the

Which of the following provides the best explanation as to why cultural display rules impact emotional expression?

Which of the following pieces of evidence best supports the notion that humans have innate fundamental emotional patterns?

Researcher Ekman developed this method as a way to study fundamental patterns of human emotional expression.

You are achievement oriented, and likes to master a task; you learn from and understands your mistakes and improve your performance. People would say that you observe a ___________ to your goals.

Physiological information provided by the muscles of the face may provide significant clues regarding the nature and intensity of the emotions we experience, according to the _______________.

Providing one line of support for the idea of the lateralization of emotion, multiple studies have found that a _____ resting level of _____-hemisphere activity has some predictive relationship with developing adult depressive disorder (Marshall & Fox, 2000; Tomarken & Keener, 1998).

Actions taken to release the tension created by aggressive and sexual impulses serve to temporarily return people to a more balanced state. This is the concept of _____________.

Every now and then, if both starting goalies are injured or otherwise unable to play, an NHL team requires an emergency backup goalie. These goalies are usually not professionals and the rare opportunity to play in a real NHL game could be terrifying, exciting, or a mixture of both. Sometimes they even win (just ask David Ayres, who defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs in that very situation!). According to the facial feedback hypothesis, if an emergency goalie managed to avoid displaying any signs of fear in their facial expression during the game, how could that influence their potential to feel afraid?

You work out at the gym three nights a week. Lately, you've noticed that after your workout, the receptionist seems much more attractive and you really want to date her. This increase in attraction would be predicted by

How do cultural norms and environmental stimuli influence sexual behaviour?

Positive or negative affective states that are comprised of various cognitive, physiological, and behavioural responses are called ____________.