Ch 7: Personality, Motivation, and Emotion (Princeton Review)

Question 1

The relationship between performance and emotional arousal is a U-shaped correlation: people perform best when they are moderately aroused. This is known as the ______-______ law.

Answer 1

Yerkes-Dodson law

p. 186

Question 2

While environmental factors like culture do play a role in how emotion is expressed, there are 6 major universal emotions that are expressed similarly across cultures. What are they?

Answer 2

Happiness
Sadness
Surprise
Fear
Disgust
Anger

p. 186

Question 3

What theory suggests that a physiological need creates an aroused state that drives the organism to reduce that need by engaging in some behavior?

Answer 3

Drive reduction theory
this is related to homeostasis

p. 179

Question 4

In contrast to drive reduction theory, which focuses on internal drives, incentive theory is related to ________ _______.

Answer 4

external stimuli

p. 179

Question 5

According to incentive theory, behaviors are most strongly motivated when there are physiological needs, strong positive incentives, and a lack of ________ ________.

Answer 5

negative incentives

p. 179