Exam 11: Motivation and Emotion

Which of the following statements about modern research undertaken on sexual orientation Is true?

Evolutionary psychologists assume that positive emotions are adaptively significant because they serve to narrow our attention to relevant stimuli.

Describe some factors that contribute to the pressure women feel to be thin.

Your roommate returns home after being gone all day and rolls his eyes and says nothing in response to your friendly, "hello." You interpret this lack of response as being rather rude and your body responds with some of the minor physiological changes associated with anger. With your arousal increasing, you sarcastically say, "Nice to see you too, jerk!" under your breath as your roommate closes the door to his room. In this example, the rolling eyes and lack of response from your roommate would best be considered the

A modern evolutionary theorist would most likely assert that humans are social creatures because social behaviour ___________.

Research conducted by April Fallon and Paul Rozin (1985) demonstrated that college women ______________ how thin they should be to conform to men's preferences, and that men ______________ how muscular they should be to conform to women's preferences.

Aaron and Mike are both runners and are each in the process of trying to choose one of three different runs that they can take: one easy run, one medium-difficulty run, and one challenging run. Assume that Aaron has a high need for achievement and that Mike has a low need for achievement. If we apply the results from research on need for achievement to this situation, we would expect Aaron to choose the ____________ run while Mike would likely opt for the ____________ run.

You overhear a psychologist talking about motivation. She mentions terms such as competence motivation, autonomy and relatedness. It appear that she is a follower of

A potential strength of evaluating lying with polygraphs is that ___________.

Given that they can influence how other people respond to us, emotions can also be considered as a form of

Kelly tends to fantasize about Jamie Fraser from her favourite series Outlander when she has sex with her boyfriend Trevor. From what you learned about the psychology of sex, Kelly should

Sometimes we feel emotional, but don't really know why. In this situation, the feeling is most likely the result of activation in

According to the inverted U relationship between arousal and performance, performance will be best on a moderately difficult task if there is a moderate level of arousal. If the task is easy and not very complex, it is likely that the optimal level of arousal for this second task will be __________.

When the hormone leptin is released into the blood, an animal will most likely experience

Braden would like to lose weight, but because he is obese exercise is uncomfortable for him. He begins a diet he finds in a magazine and loses a substantial amount of weight in the first two weeks. After that he is unable to lose more until he decreases his food intake; two weeks later, he must again decrease how much he eats. Worse, he is tired all the time. What does Braden need to do to keep losing weight?

Research conducted by April Fallon and Paul Rozin (1985) demonstrated that college women ____________ how thin they should be to conform to men's preferences, and that men _____________ how bulky they should be to conform to women's preferences.

In his two-factor theory of emotion, Stanley Schachter asserts that the cognitive appraisal of situational cues provides essential information to help us determine exactly what emotion we are feeling while our ______________ tell(s) us how strongly we are feeling something.

For people who are overweight, their bodies tend to respond to food deprivation that is brought about by dieting by decreasing the rate of basal metabolism. This metabolic shift in response to dieting tends to ____________ over time.

The text discussed one study that found a significant correlation between the amount of achievement imagery present in children's stories and the number of patents issued each year. This example was presented to demonstrate the relationship between achievement motivation and

Abraham Maslow's concept of ______________ assumes that people are motivated to achieve their potentials by a range of needs, from basic biological needs for safety and nutrition to aesthetic and self-actualization needs.