Week 20

Question 1

Regulatory drives

Answer 1

Hunger/thirst/thermoregulation

Question 2

Motivational states

Answer 2

Rewards seeking states, motivated behaviour is reinforced by pleasure we experience one the reward has been obtained. Related to limbic system

Question 3

Central state theory

Answer 3

Various drives correspond with different neural activity in different parts of the brain

Question 4

Drive-reducation therapy

Answer 4

Proposes that a drive produces an unpleasant states that causes an organism to engage in motivated behaviours. Reduction of the drive is reinforcing

Question 5

Over-justification event

Answer 5

Predicts that people who shift from intrinsic to extrinsic rewards for engaging in an activity will stop if the activity if the extrinsic rewards is removed. The cessation of previously enjoyable behaviour is the over-justification event

Question 6

James-Lange Theory

Answer 6

Theory says ANS is activated before the emotion is experienced

Question 7

Cannon-Bond theory

Answer 7

Proposes the brain controls emotions; the ANS response is merely coincidental to the emotional state

Question 8

Senate’s Two-Factor Theory

Answer 8

Proposes the brain interprets ANS arousal and depending on the context, labels emotion

Question 9

Facial feedback hypothesis

Answer 9

Expressing a facial emotion leads to physiologically feeling that emotion