Exam 9: Motivation and Emotion

Chayim has been writing his term paper in the library for almost 12 hours. He is getting very lonely and he calls a friend to ask him to go to dinner. Chayim's loneliness is a(n) ____________ and calling his friend is a(n) ____________.

Andie, Alex, Josh, and Matthew are all waiting to get flu shots. Andie and Alex are not at all afraid of shots, but Josh and Matthew are nervous about shots. Josh is most likely to want to wait:

A(n) ____________ is a physiological state that encourages behaviours that correct a deficiency state, which is called a(n) ____________.

Blake is waiting to hear whether he has been accepted to medical school. He is so anxious that he is having trouble working. To cope with the situation, he tries to keep himself from thinking about medical school or the admissions process. By engaging in this process of ____________, Blake is likely to ____________.

Robert becomes anxious during exams. He has found that chewing on the eraser on his pencil while he thinks helps him to calm down. According to Hull, over time Robert's pencil chewing is likely to become ____________ due to ____________.

A software company starts to give monthly polygraph tests to all of its employees to catch anyone who may be selling proprietary information to other companies. This approach is unlikely to be very successful because a lie detector test:

Griffin has been encouraging his students to set the goal of concentrating completely all the way through their long calculus exam. If he wants to help his students achieve this goal, he should write the first few questions so that they are:

In the mythical country of Xacandra, people experience an emotion that they call revzola. Revzola is associated with particular states of arousal and the people who experience it strongly do better in Xacandran society. When Xacandran psychologists explored nearby countries, they discovered that every culture had an emotion like revzola, though they called it by different names. In terms of the circumplex model of emotions, revzola is a ____________ emotion.

Deanna is starting her first job as a teacher. In order to effectively motivate her students, she ought to develop a policy for rewards in which she:

Determining the level of difficulty for a good goal is much like determining the optimal level:

The universal aspect of emotions is the ____________ which they are expressed; the culture-specific aspect of emotions is the ____________ which they are expressed.

Noor and Ahmad are four-year-old twins who are shopping with their mother. She offers to buy them each a small cookie to eat while they shop or to buy them each a large toy if they are good until she finishes shopping. Noor takes the cookie but Ahmad waits for the toy. From this behaviour you could predict that in high school Noor will be ____________ successful than Ahmad.

Contemporary thinking about the role of the amygdala in emotion holds that the path from the thalamus to the amygdala ____________ and the path from the thalamus to the sensory cortex to the amygdala ____________.

Yeast causes bread to rise and sugar activates the yeast. In terms of human behaviour, yeast is like ____________ and sugar is like ____________.

Vincent is a brilliant but impoverished artist. He spends all day pushing the boundaries of his art, and finds complete satisfaction in his achievements, but he has little to eat and lives in squalor. His wife has left him and most of his friends keep their distance because they do not understand his art. How is Vincent's life problematic for Maslow's need hierarchy?

Donato and Quincy are identical twins that were separated at birth. Donato tends to be fearful of many things and can easily be made to feel guilty. If these same qualities were evaluated in Quincy, you would expect that he would have _____ of fear and ____ of guilt.

Thabo is about to take the admissions exam for law school. He knows that anxiety can hurt test performance, so he deliberately makes himself very relaxed before going into the exam. He proceeds through the exam very calmly, without feeling rushed or pressured. He is shocked when time is called before he finishes. He would have been less shocked had he known about:

Jack enjoys erotic movies and wishes that his wife would watch them with him, but she says that she just does not enjoy them. Based on current research, you could suggest to Jack that his wife might enjoy erotic movies more if:

Shuchun has been in an accident and damaged his prefrontal cortex. This is likely to cause Shuchun to have a lessened ability to:

Ever since his girlfriend broke up with him, Marcus has been going over the breakup in his mind. "Why did she leave? How could I have stopped her? We had such wonderful times. I miss her so much." Marcus is trying to cope with his feelings through: