Exam 7: Emotion and Motivation: Feeling and Striving

Drives are unlearned, species-specific behaviors that are more complex than an eye blink.

Your text suggests that bonding between sexual partners may occur following orgasm. Which hormone might explain this tendency in women?

The release of sexual tension occurs during the resolution stage of the human sexual response cycle.

Things that attract or lure people to action are ______________.

Which of the following factors is most likely to have an effect on predictions made by the Yerkes-Dodson Law?

A culture that emphasizes the group over the individual is ________.

The first systematic surveys of sexual behavior were conducted in the 1940s by ________.

The requirements and desires that lead humans and other animals to behave in particular ways at particular times and places are called ________.

Our curiosity and our need to understand our world are a part of which of Maslow's needs?

Some obese people have been able to lose large amounts of weight and keep it off. Which is the best explanation of how they did it?

Bill has felt isolated and an "outsider" since coming to college for his freshman year. As a result, he decided to rush a fraternity and was very excited when he was selected to pledge. According to Maslow, Bill may be attempting to meet the need of _______________.

Drives serve to activate responses that are aimed at reducing the drive, thereby returning the body to a more normal state called ______________.

According to ________ , emotions arise from a combination of brain and body reactions and interpretations, along with memories that pertain to the situation.

Which theory maintains that emotion is caused by the interaction of physiological changes and the cognitive labeling of the reason for the physical reaction?

Eating dessert after a satisfying meal is an example of a deprived reward.

An innate emotion that all humans share is called a(n) _______.

An incentive is a stimulus that draws you toward a goal in anticipation of a reward.

According to Abraham Maslow's hierarchy, self-actualization is the need that must be met first.

Feeling full seems to be governed in large part by the neurotransmitter ________.

Lester has high test anxiety, which tends to affect his test performance even though he studies a lot. According to the Yerkes-Dodson Law, which of the following activities will help Lester improve his performance?