Chapter 9

Question 1

Motivation

Answer 1

A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior

Question 2

Basal Metabolic Rate

Answer 2

The bodys resting rate of energy output

Question 3

Ostracism

Answer 3

Deliberate social exclusion of individuals or groups

Question 4

James Lange Theory

Answer 4

The theory that our experience of emotion occurs when we become aware of our physiological responses to an emotion arousing stimulus

Question 5

Cannon Bard Theory

Answer 5

The theory of an emotion arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experience of emotion

Question 6

Two Factor Theory

Answer 6

Schacher and Singer’s theory that to experience emotion we must (1) be physically aroused and (2) cognitively label the arousal

Question 7

Fight or Flight response

Answer 7

an automatic physiological reaction to an event that is perceived as stressful or frightening

Question 8

Sympathetic Nervous System

Answer 8

Arousing

Question 9

Parasympathetic Nervous System

Answer 9

Calming

Question 10

The Arousal Theory

Answer 10

suggests that people are driven to perform actions in order to maintain an optimum level of physiological arousal

Question 11

Drive Reduction Theory

Answer 11

a theory of learning in which the goal of motivated behavior is a reduction of a drive state

Question 12

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Answer 12

Maslow’s pyramid of human needs; at the base are physiological needs. These basic needs must be met before higher level saftey needs, then psychological needs become active

Question 13

Emotions use different brain areas and pathways

Answer 13

The left frontal lobe signals positive rather than negative moods