Exam 12: Motivation

The only "real love" is romantic love, and if a relationship begins to lose its passion, it never was true love.

Name the three kinds of motivational conflicts that affect our choice of goals.

Which of the following motives for sex do men endorse most strongly?

According to traditional evolutionary psychologists, both males and females are cautious and choosy about their sexual partners.

The pursuit of an activity for its own sake is called intrinsic motivation.

For many years, women in Western society were more pragmatic than men in choosing a partner because women married a man and his standard of living.

The passion at the beginning of love should be powerful enough to fuel love through all of its ups and downs.

________ is an eating disorder characterized by a fear of being fat, a distorted body image, radically reduced consumption of food, and emaciation.

For many decades, the study of motivation was dominated by a focus on biological drives.

People who frame their goals in specific, achievable avoidance terms (I'm going to lose weight by staying away from rich foods) feel more optimistic than those who frame the goals in approach terms.

Which underlying motive emphasizes having sex to avoid the lover's anger or rejection?

When we took our imaginary stroll through the brain in Chapter 4 (The Brain: Source of Mind and Self), we encountered a structure just beneath the thalamus that was associated with survival of both the individual and the species. Name this structure and then explain the role it plays in our survival. Explain why this part of the brain was emphasized when a team of researchers isolated a genetic variation that causes mice to become obese (Chapter 12).

Six aspects of the work environment have been found to increase job involvement, work motivation, and job satisfaction. Describe these conditions. How is money related to work motivation?

Studies on the biology of desire indicate that:

________ is defined as an inferred process within a person or animal that causes that organism to move toward a goal or away from an unpleasant situation.

The English words motivation and emotion come from the Latin root meaning to move.

Which of the following is NOT a condition that increases the motivating power of a goal?

Dr. Boatwright asks a client to interpret a series of drawings that show scenes of people. Which of the following tests is she administering?

The attachment theory of love emphasizes that people acquire their attachment styles of love in large part from how their parents cared for them.

Match the definitions with the appropriate terms. -The genetically influenced weight range for an individual, maintained by biological mechanisms that regulate food intake, fat reserves, and metabolism.