Exam 7: Motivation and Emotion

Instinct theory is what we currently use to explain human motivation.

Primary drives contrast with secondary drives,in which behavior fulfills no obvious biological need.

An interest in establishing and maintaining relationships with other people is known as the need for _____________.

Define each of the following terms: transsexualism,transgenderism,and transvestites.

Explain what you should keep in mind when you are trying to lose weight,according to your textbook.

The view that premarital sex is permissible for males but not for females is called the _____________.

Motivation is an external drive that relies on input from others.

People who are sexually attracted to members of their own sex are considered ______________.

_____________ approaches to motivation suggest that motivation stems from the desire to obtain valued external goals.

Explain the purpose of homeostasis.

A lack of some basic biological requirement such as water,which produces a drive to obtain that requirement (thirst),is known as the drive-reduction approach.

This severe eating disorder causes people to refuse to eat while denying that their behavior and appearance are unusual.

It has been proven that eating disorders have nothing to do with society's valuation of slenderness and parallel notion that obesity is undesirable.

According to the ______________ theory of emotion,emotions are determined jointly by a nonspecific kind of physiological arousal and its interpretation,based on environmental cues.

People who believe that they were born with the body of the other gender are called _____________.

Define the facial-feedback hypothesis.

List the basic emotions accepted by researchers.

According to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs,self-actualization is a relatively easy state to accomplish.

A lack of some basic biological requirement such as water,which produces a drive to obtain that requirement (thirst),is known as the ______________ approach.

Intrinsic motivation causes us to do something for money,a grade,or some other concrete,tangible reward.