Finals: Motivation And Emotion

Question 1

An inherit d disposition to activate specific behavior patterns that are designed to reach certain goals

Answer 1

Instinct

Question 2

The view that organisms learn to engage in behaviors that have the effect of reducing drives

Answer 2

Drive-reduction theory

Question 3

Unlearned, or physiological drives

Answer 3

Primary drives

Question 4

Drives acquired through experience or learned

Answer 4

Acquired drives

Question 5

The tendency of the body to maintain a steady state

Answer 5

Homeostasis

Question 6

Maslow hierarchy of needs

Answer 6

Self-actualization
Esteem needs
Love and belongingness
Safety needs
Physiological needs

Question 7

Self-initiated striving to become what one is capable of being
Motive for reaching one’s full potential, for expressing one’s unique capabilities

Answer 7

Self-actualization

Question 8

State of being satisfied in digestive tract

Answer 8

Satiety

Question 9

A central area on the underside of the hypothalamus that appears to function as a stop-eating center

Answer 9

VMN (Ventromedial Nucleus)

Question 10

Characterized by excessive eating

Answer 10

Hyperphagic

Question 11

An area at the side of the hypothalamus that appears to function as a start-eating center

Answer 11

Lateral hypothalamus

Question 12

Characterized by undereating

Answer 12

Aphagic

Question 13

Persistent,gross disturbances in eating patterns

Answer 13

Eating disorders

Question 14

Life-threatening eating disorder characterized by dramatic weight loss and a distorted body image

Answer 14

Anorexia nervosa

Question 15

An eating disorder characterized by repeated cycles of binge eating and purging

Answer 15

Bulimia nervosa

Question 16

a state of feeling that has cognitive, physiological, and behavioural components

Answer 16

emotion

Question 17

branch of autonomic nervous system: energy utilization

Answer 17

sympathetic nervous system

Question 18

branch of autonomic nervous system: energy conservation

Answer 18

parasympathetic nervous system

Question 19

deals with positive emotions such as happiness and love, optimism and hope, and joy and sensual pleasures

Answer 19

positive psychology

Question 20

argues that facial expressions affect our emotional state

Answer 20

facial-feedback hypothesis

Question 21

:assumes emotions; w/ physiological reactions

Answer 21

James Lange

Question 22

:understand the stimulus first before emotion

Answer 22

Walter Cannon

Question 23

:stimulus and reaction simultaneously

Answer 23

Cannon-Bard Theory

Question 24

:group of people has different emotions

Answer 24

Cognitive Appraisal