Exam 9: The Motivation of Instrumental Action

Bill is a moderately well-to-do man who has an obsessive compulsive disorder that leads him to check and double-check that his electric appliances are off. He has trouble with his weight and keeps it in check by working out regularly with a personal trainer. Each time the trainer arrives for a session with Bill, he confiscates any food Bill has brought with him. How do you expect this will affect Bill's OCD behavior when he is in the presence of his trainer? Justify your answer.

According to sequential theory,

Compare and contrast drive with acquired motivation in terms of the source of the motivation.

Researchers studying animals and children have found that

Which research design tests for the effect of motivation on behavior?

Ducklings that were calm before and during imprinting become distressed when the stimulus is removed. The distress is likely due to

Travis is teaching a course of average difficulty. On the first day he informs his class that the course is very hard and that very few students earn grades higher than C. He knows that this is an exaggeration. He expects that the grades will be distributed just as they are in any other course, but he thinks that this introduction will improve his teacher evaluations at the end of the course. Given what you know about acquired motivation, what do you think Travis is up to? What would Crespi think the students will experience at the end of the course?

Withdrawal symptoms in a drug addict are most consistent with

In Hullian theory, the function of s_g is to provide

According to Amsel's schema, the greatest amount of frustration would be experienced by a subject that receives _______ and then _______.

A motivational perspective assumes that behavior will be variable when the

According to a sequential theory account, which sequence would be likely to show the strongest PREE?

Based on what we know about motivation, which rat will be most likely to overeat?

Research indicates that motivated behavior is

Which term does not belong with the others in this list?

The seeming conflict between concurrent measurement studies and the Pavlovian-instrumental transfer studies was resolved by assuming that classical conditioning

Which result demonstrates outcome-specific PIT?

"Imprinting" refers to the process

According to the opponent-process theory of motivation, there is a peak in the initial emotional reaction followed by an adaptation phase. The peak in the standard pattern of affective dynamics occurs because

The two most important consequences of conditioning, r_G, include