CCP Intro To Psychology Chapter 9

Question 1

The force that moves people to behave, think, and feel the way they do.

Answer 1

Motivation

Question 2

An innate (unlearned) biological pattern of behavior that is assumed to be universal throughout a species.

Answer 2

Instinct

Question 3

the idea that all motivation comes from biological needs

Answer 3

Drive Reduction Theory

Question 4

A deprivation that energizes the drive to eliminate or reduce the deprivation.

Answer 4

Need

Question 5

An aroused state that occurs because of a physiological need.

Answer 5

Drive

Question 6

The body’s tendency to maintain an equilibrium, or steady state.

Answer 6

Homeostasis

Question 7

The body’s tendency to maintain an equilibrium, or steady state.

Answer 7

Optimum Arousal Theory

Question 8

performance is best under conditions of moderate rather than high or low arousal

Answer 8

Yerkes-Dodson Theory

Question 9

the direction of a persons erotic attraction

Answer 9

Sexual Orientation

Question 10

A person’s sexual attractions do not depend on the biological sex, gender, or gender identity of others.

Answer 10

Pansexual

Question 11

A person experiences a lack of sexual attraction to others and may feel no sexual orientation.

Answer 11

Asexual

Question 12

LGBT is an initialism that stands for “lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender

Answer 12

LGBT

Question 13

Maslow’s theory that human needs must be satisfied in the following sequence: physiological needs, safety, love and belongingness, esteem, and self-actualization.

Answer 13

Hierarchy of needs

Question 14

The motivation to develop one’s full potential as a human being—the highest and most elusive of Maslow’s proposed needs.

Answer 14

Self-actualization

Question 15

Deci and Ryan’s theory asserting that all humans have three basic, innate organismic needs: competence, relatedness, and autonomy.

Answer 15

Self-determination theory

Question 16

the sense that we are in control of our own life

Answer 16

Autonomy

Question 17

Motivation based on internal factors such as organismic needs (competence, relatedness, and autonomy), as well as curiosity, challenge, and fun.

Answer 17

Intrinsic Motivation

Question 18

Motivation that involves external incentives such as rewards and punishments.

Answer 18

Extrinsic Motivation

Question 19

The process by which an organism effortfully controls its behavior in order to pursue important objectives.

Answer 19

Self-regulation

Question 20

Feeling, or affect, that can involve physiological arousal, conscious experience and behavioral expression

Answer 20

Emotion

Question 21

The theory that emotion results from physiological states triggered by stimuli in the environment.

Answer 21

James-Lange theory

Question 22

The proposition that emotion and physiological reactions occur simultaneously.

Answer 22

Cannon-Bard theory

Question 23

Schachter and Singer’s theory that emotion is determined by two factors: physiological arousal and cognitive labeling.

Answer 23

Two-factor theory of emotion

Question 24

The idea that facial expressions can influence emotions and reflect them.

Answer 24

Facial feedback hypothesis

Question 25

Sociocultural standards that determine when, where, and how emotions should be expressed.

Answer 25

Display rules

Question 26

weather an emotion feels pleasant or unpleasant

Answer 26

Valence