Exam 10: Motivation and Emotion

With regard to various foods, cultural values tend to greatly affect their

Jet lag results when travelers experience a lack of synchronization between the local time of the place they have traveled to and their __________.

Taste aversions develop through

Your body's tendency to maintain equilibrium is similar to which of the following in your home?

Regarding hunger, thirst is

You are walking down a deserted alley late at night, and you hear a sudden noise to your left. Your sympathetic nervous system prepares your body for fight or flight, and you experience fear. Just before you turn to run, however, you see a cat race away from the trash can he was digging in. "Oh, that was the noise," you think. Instead of experiencing fear, you laugh wildly at what you had imagined was coming after you in the alley. This set of events is best described by which theory of emotion?

Nariko is a college student, who enjoys taking challenging classes so that she can learn skills that will be helpful to her in the future. Although she has high A's in all of her courses, she strives to do the best she can on every test and assignment because it is important to her to meet her own standards of excellence. Nariko has a high need for

In body language, relaxation is communicated by

To prevent test anxiety before each test, you should imagine going blank, running out of time, or feeling panicked and then calmly plan how you will handle each situation.

Shayna gorges on food and then vomits or takes laxatives to avoid gaining weight. Shayna would most likely be diagnosed with __________.

Regarding drives, which of the following statements is TRUE?

Stage fright or "choking" in sports illustrate that emotions

If the nerve carrying information between your stomach and brain were severed, you would still feel hungry and would eat regularly.

According to self-determination theory, when you freely choose to do something for enjoyment or to improve your abilities, your motivation is usually

The area of the brain that contains both a feeding center and the satiety center is the __________.

The desire to have impact or control over others is called the need for

Regarding facial expressions, which of the following statements is FALSE?

Charles Darwin and psychologists consider human emotional expressions

Overeating tends to be encouraged by all of the following EXCEPT for

Regarding factors that influence eating, which of the following statements is FALSE?