Exam 11: Motivation and Emotion

A person's ____________ specifically refers to his or her emotional and erotic preference for partners of a particular sex.

Higher levels of leptin are associated with ___________.

A similarity between people with a high motive for success and people with a high fear of failure is that both of these motives can produce a high need for achievement.

Extrinsic motivation involves performing an activity for its own sake because you find it enjoyable or engaging.

One of the problems with lie detector tests is that a(n) __________ person may appear ____________ if they become nervous, doubtful, or fearful during the procedure.

The three fundamental psychological needs proposed by the self-determination theory are

Applying electrical stimulation to the lateral hypothalamus and lesioning the ventromedial hypothalamus would result in a similar outcome for lab rats?

Your intestines respond to the ingestion of food by releasing this peptide, which travels to the brain and stimulates the receptors sites of brain regions that decrease eating. This peptide is called

Darwin suggested that some emotional expressions are innate. Modern evolutionary theorists

The fact that children who are blind from birth express basic emotions facially in roughly the same way as sighted children do is consistent with the claim that ___________.

In humans, daily fluctuations in sex hormones are ___________.

Which of the following was specifically mentioned as a cultural factor that can influence eating behaviours?

Homeostatic mechanisms for eating are designed to ___________.

If Sarah wanted to increase the weight of her pet rat for a "giant rat contest," what might she do?

Jeanie was actually having a pretty good day before her roommate came home in a very depressed mood. After listening to her roommate for a while, Jeanie began to feel a little bit depressed herself. This example best demonstrates the process of

As you get ready to write an exam, you are concerned that other students will do much better than you. You are focusing on

Though Antero didn't really want to go to college, his parents insisted on it. His goal now is to outperform others with only as much effort as it takes, which reflects a __________________ orientation.

You are working on a new drug to help people with an eating problem. Your drug targets CCK. Most likely you are trying to

Nalini is in France as an exchange student. While out for dinner with new friends she makes the "okay" gesture by touching her thumb and forefinger together and clearly offends Pierre, who is sitting across from her. Confused, Nalini asked what she had done wrong, and learned that this gesture is obscene in France. Nalini is horrified that her French classes never educated her on French

Richard Lazarus and his colleagues showed participants a film depicting an aboriginal puberty ritual where young boys had their penises cut with a jagged knife. As predicted, participants who saw a version of the film with what was called the _________ soundtrack experienced the highest levels of arousal, thus providing direct support for Lazarus's contention that ______________________.