Motivation

Question 1

What term is given to A drive that stems from the biological needs of an organism. Also called primary drive.

Answer 1

Physiological Drive

Question 2

What are the biological drives of humans

Answer 2

Hunger, Thirst, Maintenance of a 98.6 degree temperature

Question 3

True or false, Brain favours tastes of food that contain nutrients we lack

Answer 3

True

Question 4

What are some bodily factors affecting hunger

Answer 4

Stomach stretching sends impulses to brain via vagus nerve to reduce level of hunger
Food in intestine stimulated release of cholecystokinin (CCK)
Wolkowitz (1990)
Insulin Induces feelings of hunger

Question 5

True or False, Hunger depends more on insulin that decreased blood sugar levels

Answer 5

True

Question 6

What is the name of the hormone used to decrease levels of hunger

Answer 6

Cholecystokinin

Question 7

What factor in the brain affects hunger

Answer 7

Ventromedial Hypothalamus

Lateral Hypothalamus

Question 8

True or False, If the Ventromedial Hypothalamus is destroyed, eating will be induced

Answer 8

True

Question 9

What two factors affect the Hypothalamus

Answer 9

Marijuana and Depression

Question 10

How does the Lateral Hypothalamus implicate stimulating hunger

Answer 10

Orexin secretions

Question 11

What hormone is secreted on an empty stomach, thus increases hunger

Answer 11

Ghrelin

Question 12

What hormone is secreted by fat cells, to decrease hunger levels

Answer 12

Leptin

Question 13

What hormone is secreted by the pancreas to increase hunger

Answer 13

Insulin

Question 14

True or false, Hunger depends more on insulin that decreased blood sugar levels

Answer 14

True

Question 15

What has the same intensity of a sex drive due to similarities from interaction of the biological and psychosocial experiences

Answer 15

Hunger

Question 16

Who created the instinct theory that suggests, Humans are guided by a variety of instincts, including instincts for “aggression”, “curiosity” and “gregariousness

Answer 16

McDougall

Question 17

Who created the theory that suggests, everything we do, every thought we have, and every emotion we experience has one of two goals: to help us survive or to prevent our destruction.

Answer 17

Freud

Question 18

Who created the theory that suggests, human behaviour depends on learning not heredity

Answer 18

John B. Watson

Question 19

What theory suggests that A need caused by physiological deprivation, such as lack of food or water, induces a state of tension called a drive, which motivates the individual to reduce it (Hull,1943)

Answer 19

DRIVE-REDUCTION THEORY

Question 20

What theory was dominated in the 1940s and 1950s

Answer 20

Drive- Reduction Theory

Question 21

What theory suggests that people are motivated to do things because of external rewards.

Answer 21

Incentive Theory of Motivation

Question 22

How is the incentive theory different from most theories

Answer 22

Incentive theory instead suggests that we are pulled into action by outside incentives.

Question 23

That theory of motivation suggest that Humans are driven to achieve their maximum potential and will always do so unless obstacles are placed in their way.

Answer 23

Humanistic theory

Question 24

What theorist illustrated the Humanistic theory of motivation

Answer 24

Abraham Maslow

Question 25

What Theorist studied that the behavioral effects of three needs: Achievement, Power and Affiliation

Answer 25

McClelland’s Achievement Motivation Theory

Question 26

What theory suggests performance is best under conditions of moderate arousal rather than either

Answer 26

OPTIMUM AROUSAL THEORY, Yerkes- Dodson

Question 27

What is the Yerkes-Dodson Law

Answer 27

For each of us there is an optimal point of arousal, typically near the middle of the curve