Exam 10: Emotions and Motivations

The primary purpose of the fight-or-flight response is to:

Psychologists have investigated the effects of daily hassles on stress and health. Which alternative best summarizes the results of such research

Your text describes a study of optimism and health (Peterson et al., 1998) in which participants were first interviewed in the late 1930s and then assessed periodically over the next 50 years. Your knowledge of developmental psychology allows you to identify this as a _______ study.

Which alternative best expresses the relationship between emotion and motivation

Gwen eats huge amounts of food in a single sitting, then vomits and uses laxatives to purge the excess food. Gwen appears to suffer from _________.

Which of the following describes bulimia nervosa

Which theory of emotion is CORRECTLY matched with its description

Which of the following describes the alarm stage of the General Adaptation model

ADDIN ENRfu Muraven, Tice, and Baumeister (1998) asked some of their participants to suppress their emotions while they watched a movie and other participants to increase their emotions while they watched a movie. Compared to a control condition, the people who either suppressed or increased their emotions

Motivational tension that activates behavior to satisfy a goal is termed a(n):

Holmes and Rahe are noted for their development of a scale measuring:

When blood pH becomes overly acidic, respiration and kidney function change to bring the acidity back to its normal pH level of 7.4. What does this process best exemplify

With respect to happiness, social support is:

According to your text, approximately what portion of Americans fail to get enough exercise

In the first stage of the sexual response cycle, the penis becomes erect and the clitoris swells. This is the _______ phase.

Consider the fight-or-flight and the tend-and-befriend responses to stress. Of the two, the __________ is healthier, because it is not associated with the release of the stress hormone _______.

Declan, a PhD candidate, tells his department's undergraduate student organization that his dissertation research is in the area of motivation. Declan is investigating:

In the James-Lange theory of emotion, physiological responses _________ emotional experiences.

Which of the phases of the human sexual response cycle is correctly matched with its description

Sometimes we try to deal with stress by ignoring it or pushing it out of our minds. Which of the following does your text mention as a drawback of such a strategy