Exam 9: Motivation and Emotion

Ruth weighed 60 kilograms all of her adult life. During her recent pregnancy, she gained 5 extra kilograms. Within a few months, Ruth's weight returned naturally to 60 kilograms. For Ruth, 60 kilograms was a(n) ____________ and her body went back to it through a process of ____________.

LaVonne is majoring in engineering, but she dislikes all of her engineering classes and loves all of her political science classes. One day when LaVonne is reading political science to avoid reading engineering, she decides to change her major and become a lawyer. LaVonne's decision reflects which adaptive quality of emotions?

Who has the highest probability of having a same-sex sexual orientation?

A computer process is developed that searches for the most items that are related to the search term or for items that are the most relevant to the search term. In terms of human behaviour, a program that searches for the most items is showing the ____________ quality of motivation. A program that searches for the most relevant items is showing the ____________ quality of motivation.

Bronwen is a new freshman and she wants to meet more people. She goes to the meeting of a campus organization and to a party in her dorm. She does not meet anyone she likes at either event and stops searching for new friends. Bronwen has the ____________ quality of motivation, but not the ____________ quality of motivation.

Emilio and Claudio are both graduating seniors. Emilio has an A average and Claudio has a C average. They are both applying to law school at the University of Toronto, Osgoode Hall, and McGill. Emilio is likely to be ____________ in achievement motivation and Claudio is likely to be ____________ in achievement motivation.

Hernando and Fiona have both been placed in a new advanced math class. They both love math and are finding the enriched work fascinating. In order to increase his effort in the class, Hernando's parents give him $5 for every A that he receives on a test. Fiona's parents do not reward her for good grades. Who is likely to do better in the class and why?

A child who was not given milk to drink began to eat chalk from the blackboard in his room to replace the missing calcium. This is an example of:

Dagmar and Bjorg have gone down the most demanding ski trail at the resort. Back at the lodge they suddenly find that their attraction for each other has increased greatly. This is most likely due to:

According to the two-factor theory of emotion, we experience emotion through:

Luke needs about seven hours of sleep a night. During his spring break, however, he sleeps ten hours just because he enjoys it so much. This finding is a problem for which theory?

In terms of the circumplex model, anger and annoyance share ____________, while anger and joy share ____________.

Animals that lack the gene needed to produce ____________ become extremely obese.

Reiko has not slept for almost two days while she studies for finals. She finally realizes that she is exhausted and goes home from the library to sleep. Reiko's exhaustion is a(n) ____________ and going home to sleep is a(n) ____________.

Ahava has been working for a week in her company's London office. She finishes the project a day earlier than expected. Initially, she decides to take that free day and explore London. Then she thinks about how much it would please her husband if she came back early, and starts to worry about whether being gone from her children so long will hurt her relationship with them. Ahava is showing which of the beneficial functions of guilt?

Eva and Garnet are identical twins who survived a traumatic accident in which a car they were riding in plummeted into a river. During the accident Eva's amygdala was severely damaged; Garnet experienced no injuries. You would expect that Eva ____________ develop a phobia about buses and Garnet ____________ develop a phobia about buses.

Gerde is very close to finishing her Ph.D. in biology. She has been offered several good jobs and everyone assumed she was off to a brilliant career. However, Gerde decides that while she is a very talented biologist, what she really wants is to become a carpenter. She quits graduate school and goes on to become a very happy and successful carpenter. According to Maslow, Gerde is:

Why is sensory-specific satiety adaptive?

Even though Jenna plans to be an engineer, she loves to dance. She makes time in her life to take dance classes, even if it means that she must skip a meal or get too little sleep. Jenna's behaviour is easily explained by ____________ theory but is difficult to explain with ____________ theory.

Siobhan has a classically conditioned dog phobia. Her boyfriend has recently gotten a very small puppy. Siobhan is very frustrated because she knows that there is nothing to fear from the puppy, but she is still too frightened to go near it. An explanation for her puzzlement is that the fear: