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1
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With increasing receptor convergence you get?

a) Resolution
b) sensitivity
c) decreasing
d) increasing

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d) increasing

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What does the multichannel model of vision (Campbell & Robson, 1968) state??

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The visual system decomposes the white light into multiple spectral colors.

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Location of rods of the Retina?

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are mostly located at the peripheral regions of the retina.

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As a rule, animals have laced eyes which …..binocular overlap predator frontally (ikke min setning)

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Frontally Maximise

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The constructive nature of perception refers to ?

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to the fact that perception is based on knowledge and experience

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Which of the following brain areas is NOT a part of the visual system?

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STG

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Which of the following is a classical psychophysical method used by Fechner?

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Method of constant stimuli.

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Mullers doctrine of specific energies states that:

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The nature of sensation depends on which sensory fibers were stimulated.

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The theory of object recognition that argues for multuple stored views of an object is called:

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View-based recognition.

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The size of the receptive field of retinal ganglion cells is bigger:

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on the periphery than on the center of the retina.

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What is transduction?

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The transformation of physical stimulus into neural signals.

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12
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Which of the following structures are NOT a part of the eye?

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Optic chiasm.

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13
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Which of the following is FALSE about the fovea?

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Characterized by high convergence.

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14
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Psychopysics is the scientific field that:

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Relates a sensory stimulus to a perceptual event.

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A specific position on the retina where the presence of the light can influence the response of a ganglion cell is the?

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Receptive field.

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16
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Information from the left visual field goes to brain areas on the

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right side.

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17
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The visual cortex is in the?

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Occipital Lobe.

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18
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Which of the following is NOT a gestalt principle of perceptual organization?

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Contrast.

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19
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Simple cells in the visual cortex respond selectively to?

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Borders having a specific orientation and specific positioning.

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20
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What is the function of the pinna?

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Localization.

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21
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Where can we find mechanoreceptors?

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skin or hair in cochlea.

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22
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What is true for Braille?

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60-120 words per minute.

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23
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The somatosensory cortex is the….. of the brain?

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Parietal lobe of the cerebral cortex.

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24
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In which of the following sense is constantly replaced by new ones?

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Both smell and taste.

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25
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Which sense do animals use for mating?

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Smell

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26
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Two musical instruments have the same frequency, what makes us hear them differently?

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The pitch

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27
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A person that has an amputated leg and then suddenly feels that the leg is there, is feeling…

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A phantom limb.

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28
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According to multidimensional scaling, how many dimension is it?

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2

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29
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Where can we find mechanoreceptors?

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Skin or hair in the cochlea

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30
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What threshold is DB spl?

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0

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31
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What is used in haptic perception

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kinesthesis and touch

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32
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Something about inner hair cells , where they are placed and their function?

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Located in the stereocilia (ear), function is to convert sound (vibrations) into action potentials

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33
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What is it called when you take aspirin, and it has a good effect, and you want to take it again?

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Incentive

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34
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What is untrue about the somatosensory cortex?

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In occipital lobe.

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35
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In facial metrics, what is an attractive feature in woman? Neonatal features, expressive features, all

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all

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36
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Köhler experiment with monkeys showed?

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Insight

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37
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What is true for implicit memory and not explicit memory?

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You see it in behaviour

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38
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What kind of memory is it when you remember something that will happen in the future?

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Prospective memory

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39
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How was motivation explained in the 1700’s

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As a drive

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40
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What is a form of creativity?

A

divergent thinking

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41
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Subjective experience of joy something

A

amygdala

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42
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Brain structure a part of top-down attentional control,options

a) superior frontal
b) inferior parietal
c) superior temporal cortex

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All are activated.

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43
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Describing word of language and words

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syntax/semantics/linguistics

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44
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Which part of the brain is responsible for the executive functions?

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frontal lobe - prefrontal cortex

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45
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Saying “no, I don’t think so” is associated with which brain part?

A

amygdala

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46
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Motivational theories say that

A

drive leads to

needs drive our behavior to seek homeostasis

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47
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WCST stands for

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Wisconsin Card Sorting Test

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48
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Something about Campbell and Robson’s multichannel model

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contrast sensitivity

49
Q

Where can we mechanoreceptors?

A

in the hand (?)

50
Q

In which of the following sense is constantly replaced by new ones?

A

Both of them

51
Q

Two musical instruments have the same frequency what makes us hear them different?

A

Timbre

52
Q

Rods of the retina

A

are mostly located at the peripheral regions of the retina

53
Q

As a rule… animals have …. placed eyes which

A

Binocular overlap

54
Q

Predator

A

Frontally: maximize

55
Q

The constructive nature of perception refers to the fact

A

fact that

perception is based on knowledge and experience

56
Q

Which of the following brain areas is NOT part of the visual system?

A

STG

57
Q

Which of the following is a classical psychophysical method used by Fechner?

A

method of constant stimuli

58
Q

Mullers doctrine of specific nerve energies states that

A

the nature of a sensation depends on which sensory fibers were stimulated

59
Q

The theory of object recognition that argues for multiple stored views of an object is called

A

view-based recognition

60
Q

The size of the receptive field of retinal ganglion cells is

A

bigger on the periphery than on the center of retina

61
Q

What is transduction?

A

the transformation of physical stimulus into neural signal

62
Q

Which of the following structures is NOT part of the eye?

A

Optic chiasm

63
Q

Which of the following is FALSE about the fovea?

A

characterized by high convergence

64
Q

Psychophysics is the scientific discipline that

A

relates a sensory stimulus to a perceptual event

65
Q

A specific position on the retina, where the presence of light can influence the response of a ganglion cell is the

A

receptive field

66
Q

Information from the left visual field goes to ….. brain areas

A

Right side of the brain

67
Q

Visual cortex is in the

A

Occipital lobe

68
Q

Simple cells in the visual cortex respond selectively to

A

borders having a specific orientation and specific positioning

69
Q

What does d’ (d prime) express in the signal detection theory

A

sensory capacities of the subject

70
Q

What is it when you loose spatial attention?

A

hemispatial neglect, or attentional neglect

71
Q

What do they say that drive is at 1700?

A

Bodily fluids

72
Q

Which part of the brain is responsible for the executive functions?

A

prefrontal regions of the frontal lobes

73
Q

Something about what comes first in emotional flight reaction

A

Amygdala

74
Q

What is theory of mind?

A

the ability to attribute mental states—beliefs, intents, desires, emotions, knowledge, etc.—to oneself, and to others, and to understand that others have beliefs, desires, intentions, and perspectives that are different from one’s own.

75
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What part of the brain becomes activated when you say “Yes, I want that”

A

Activating system

76
Q

Rods in vision are responsible for?

A

Peripheral vision

77
Q

Which systems are not in LTM

A

Working Memory

78
Q

Something about Chomsky

A

Generative….?

79
Q

Something about vision

A

Occipital lobe

80
Q

Chomsky is associated with?

A

Generative linguistics

81
Q

The fact that one type of emotion (fear I think) leads to increased heart rate, but not another is

A

it supports Cannon-Bard`s criticism towards James-Langes theory

82
Q

What is the stage called in creative process when you come up with the solution

A

(incubation, illumination, orientation)

83
Q

Cellular thirst is…and thirst in blood is

A

Osmotic thirst

84
Q

Alternatives for what its called when you neglect half the space was

A

Hemineglect/hemispatial neglect

85
Q

Which of the following is NOT a Gestalt principle of perceptual organization?

A

contract

86
Q

Which part of the brain is responsible for executive functions?

A

Frontal lobe, prefrontal cortex

87
Q
  1. Saying “No, I don’t think so” is associated with which brain part
A

Frontal lobe, BIS (inhibition).

88
Q

Motivational theories say that drive leads to

A

Energy and direction

89
Q

Something about Campbell and Robson`s multichannel model

A

Defining a problem is 95% of the solving.

90
Q

Intracellular thirst is thirst within the cell (long-term?), what is the short term thirst, when its thirst in your blood?

A

extracellular thirst

91
Q

Osmosis is caused by intracellular thirst, what is this?

A

the tendency of water to move from zones where it is plentiful to zones where its relatively rare.

92
Q
  1. What part of the brain becomes activated when you say “Yes, I want that”
A

BAS , reward system –> dopamine (dopamine is not a brain area though)

93
Q

Cannon-Bard`s criticism against James-Lange: - You can have physiological arousal without feeling emotion (workout). What did Cannon (står conrad) mean?

A

that emotion+physiological arousal is processes that happen simultaneously.

94
Q

What is theory of mind?

A

– Mentalizing, understanding intentions, 4-6 y/o

95
Q

What are rods responsible for?

A

Black and white vision.

96
Q

What is the stage called in creative process when you come up with the solution

A

(incubation, illumination, orientation).

97
Q

What is not true about somatosensory cortex?

A

In the occipital lobe

98
Q

The stroop-effect

a) Is a demonstration of early selection
b) is a demonstration of late selection
c) Argues against response selection
d) Argues against interference-theories

A

b) is a demonstration of late selection.

99
Q
  1. Binocular parallax in spatial vision
    a) Is a consequence of object/shape perception
    b) Interacts with monocular effects
    c) Is invented by Béla Julesz
    d) is factor independent of object/shape perception
A

d)

100
Q
  1. Binocular parallax in spatial vision
    a) Is a consequence of object/shape perception
    b) Interacts with monocular effects
    c) Is invented by Béla Julesz
    d) is factor independent of object/shape perception
A

d)is factor independent of object/shape perception.

101
Q
  1. The monocular factors of spatial vision
    a) Motion parallax
    b) Convergence
    c) Temporal integration
    d) Saccadic eye-movement
A

a) motion parallax

102
Q
  1. The size constancy is
    a) Independent of viewing conditions
    b) comprising without the spatial context
    c) Effective only under photopic vision
    d) Effective only under scotopic vision
A

b) comprising without the spatial context.

103
Q
  1. Apparent movements
    a) Are independent of object-distance
    b) depend on temporal relations
    c) Are not influenced by luminance
    d) Have all or nothing character
A

b) depend on temporal relations

104
Q
  1. If you are trying to memorize a passage, but the text is blurred, you will first experience difficulty in which memory process?
    a) Retrieval
    b) Chunking
    c) encoding
    d) Storage
    e) Articulatory suppression
A

c) encoding

105
Q

Atkinson and Shiffrin proposed the so-called ________ model for memory in 1968, which assumed multiple memory structures.

a) Modular
b) modal
c) Factorial
d) Bidirectional
e) Computational

A

b) modal

106
Q
  1. The primacy advantage refers to the recall benefit seen for:
    a) The loudest sounds presented in a study list
    b) Items that are primed by a related cue
    c) Odd digits presented in a sequence
    d) visual stimuli occuring early in a study list.
    e) any item presented in the dominant field of vision.
A

d) visual stimuli occuring early in a study list.

107
Q

The process of rehearsal is thought to:

a) explain the recency effect.
b) Distract participants from retrival
c) Facilitate the transfer from the temporary perceptual store
d) Provide the mental workspace for symbolic manipulation
e) maintain items in the short term store

A

a) explain the recency effect.

108
Q

The process tulving calls “mental time travel” is required to which of the following types of memory

a) fantasy
b) semantic
c) episodic
d) implicit
e) motor

A

c) episodic

109
Q

The stage of creative thought during which problem solving proceeds at a subconscious level is the _______ stage.

a) incubation
b) orientation
c) preparation
d) illumination

A

a) incubation

110
Q

According to Chomsky we are able to express ideas in a variety of ways by applying _________ rules

a) functional
b) generative
c) disjunctive
d) transformation

A

a) generative

111
Q

Which of the following brain areas is important for top-down attentional control

a) hypothalamus
b) cingulate cortex
c) RAS
d) frontal cortex

A

d) frontal cortex

112
Q

ERP research has demonstrated a component that occurs when an erroneous response has been made. Thus peak is called.

a) late positively
b) mismatch negativity
c) error-related negativity
d) P300

A

c) error-related negativity

113
Q

…….. Is the study of the meaning of words and language

a) Linguistics
b) Encoding
c) Semantics
d) syntax

A

c) semantics

114
Q

In general, motivation researchers rely heavily on _______ measured but only lightly on _______ measures

a) behavioural and physiologica, self report.
b) behavioural, self report and physiological
c) self report and behavioural, physiological
d) self report, behavioural and physiological

A

a) behavioural and physiological, self-report

115
Q

The fundamental assumptions(s) of drive theory is (are)

a) A drive emerges from the disturbance of physiological needs
b) Drive has a general energizing effect on behaviour
c) Drive reduction is reinforcing and produces learning
d) all of the above
e) none of the above

A

d) all of the above

116
Q

Which of the following statements is true?

a) All needs direct behaviour but only some needs energise behaviour
b) all needs energise behaviour but needs differ from one another in how they direct behaviour toward different goals.
c) people experience acquired needs more intensely.
d) people experience organismic needs more intensely than they experience acquired needs.

A

b) all needs energise behaviour but needs differ from one another in how they direct behaviour toward different goals.

117
Q

Under the influence of positive affect, people are significantly more likely to

a) Donate money to charity
b) Help a stranger in distress
c) Initiate conversations with other people
d) solve problems in a creative way
e) all of the listed options.

A

e) all of the listed options

118
Q

The appaisal” is this situation relevant to my well-being?” constitutes an appraisal

a) outcome-driven
b) primary
c) reflected
d) secondary
e) teritary

A

c) reflected

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