Exam 9: Motivation and Emotion

Bingwen does not like formal clothes, but he must buy a suit for his sister's wedding. He goes to seven stores before he finds a suit that he likes. Bingwen going to buy a suit shows the ____________ quality of motivation. His search through seven stores shows the ____________ quality of motivation.

Marissa is learning to make soup. She is not sure how high the flame on the burner should be in order to cook it properly. On her first attempt, she uses such a low flame that the soup is not done in time for dinner. The next time, she uses a high flame and the soup boils over. Finally, she uses a flame that is just high enough. Marissa's experience is analogous to the relationship between:

The amygdala will be activated by a neutral facial expression only in someone who is chronically anxious. One plausible explanation for this finding might be that:

Psychological reactance is a powerful source of motivation because it produces behaviours that:

Jeremiah is very attracted to Annie, but he can't even get her attention. All Annie can think about is her old boyfriend, and she thinks about him all of the time. This situation exemplifies one of the major problems with ____________; it ____________.

Winona has a great deal of trouble determining the amount of fear that someone is experiencing based upon their facial expressions. It is quite likely that Winona has damage to her:

The Gianellis adopted Abigail and two years later adopted Cassandra, each from a different set of biological parents. As the girls get older, you would expect that the evidence for genetic influences on their levels of guilt would get ____________ and the evidence for the influence of a shared environment on guilt would get ____________.

An evolutionary explanation of mate preferences might suggest that women seek men with high status because:

Men's basic sexual strategy involves having multiple partners and investing relatively little in any of the resulting children. But evolutionary psychology argues that people are motivated not only to reproduce, but to have their offspring survive to adulthood so they can also reproduce. This suggests that men ought to have a second sexual strategy in which a man:

The pattern of cerebral asymmetry refers to the pattern of responding in which the right prefrontal cortex shows ____________ and the left prefrontal cortex shows ____________.

Which of the following is NOT a need?

The most important hormone for sexual functioning in men is ____________ and in women is ____________.

Negative emotions tend to create convergent thinking, in which a person looks for a single solution to a problem. Positive emotions tend to create divergent thinking, in which someone thinks of multiple approaches to a problem. This difference seems adaptive because negative emotions tend to be produced by situations ____________ and positive emotions seem to be produced by situations ____________.

If a rat that has been maintaining a steady weight eating a single kind of rat chow is also offered a variety of high fat human junk food, such as cookies, candy, or potato chips, the rat will:

According to Hull, a drive:

When people meet on the Internet they have the freedom to present themselves in any way that they please. Research on mating strategies suggests that to be most successful in generating interest from the opposite sex, men should present themselves as ____________ and women should present themselves as ____________.

Women have more choice and control of their sexuality than females of many species. This is largely because of the lesser effect of ____________ on women.

Peng is worried about what might be upsetting his one-month-old son, who seems to have an angry expression on his face. You could help by telling him that a negative facial expression on a baby his son's age is far more likely to be expressing ____________, because babies can't express anger until they are ____________ old.

According to sexual strategies theory, men and women differ in their sexual behaviour because they:

A convincing piece of evidence for the idea that positive and negative emotions are independent is that positive emotions involve ____________ and negative emotions involve ____________.