Week 8 - Motivation

Question 1

is primary signals of potential reward and positive need gratification. Located left pre frontal cortex (planning/self-regulation)

Answer 1

Behavioural Activation System (BAS)

Question 2

responds to stimuli that signals potential pain, or signs that we wont be rewarded (on reinforcement( or punishment. Located in Limbic System and right frontal lobe.

Answer 2

Behavioural Inhibition System (BIS)

Question 3

Two attractive alternatives

Answer 3

Approach-approach conflict

Question 4

Choosing between two undesirable alternatives

Answer 4

Avoidance-avoidance conflict

Question 5

Being attracted to and repelled by the same goal

Answer 5

Approach-avoidance conflict
e.g. desire to be in a relationship but fear rejection.

Question 6

Drive reduction theory

Answer 6

Homoeostasis –> biological need–> Drive –> goal directed behaviour –> need satisifed

Question 7

Instinct is learnt
TRUE or FALSE

Answer 7

False - instinct is NOT learnt

Question 8

A process that influences the direction, persistence and vigour of goal directed behaviour

Answer 8

Motivation

Question 9

is an evaluative response that typically includes physiological arousal, subjective experie4nce and beahviourla and emotional expression

Answer 9

Emotion

Question 10

Psychodynamicperspective: Freud proposed two basic drives

Answer 10

sex and aggression

Question 11

Performance approach goals & performance avoidance goals are related to both operant conditioning and emotion.
TRUE or FALSE

Answer 11

True

Question 12

Performance -approach goals are linked to positive reinforcement.
TRUE or FALSE

Answer 12

True

Question 13

Performance avoidance goals a re linked to negative reinforcement
TRUE or FALSE

Answer 13

True

Question 14

The desire to meet socially defined standard

Answer 14

Performance-approach goals

Question 15

The desire to avoid failure, particularly when its publicly observed

Answer 15

Performance-avoidance goals

Question 16

The desire to master a skill

Answer 16

Mastery goals

Question 17

This theory asserts that emotions originate in peripheral nervous system, which is then interpreted by the central nervous system

Answer 17

James-Lange theory

Question 18

This theory argues that emotion-inducing stimuli simultaneously elicits both an emotional experience and bodily response

Answer 18

Cannon-bard theory

Question 19

the ______ is involved in evaluating the emotion significance of a stimulus.

Answer 19

amgydala

Question 20

the _______ is involved in regulating autonomic response

Answer 20

hypothalamus

Question 21

the ______ plays multiple roles in respect to emotion, interpreting the meaning of events and translating emotional reactions into desirable behaviors

Answer 21

cortex

Question 22

Behavioural theorist use the term drive to refer to motivation activated by a need state such as hunger
True or False

Answer 22

True

Question 23

This theory asserts that the subjective experience of emotion results from bodily experience induced by an emotion eliciting stimulus.

Answer 23

James-Lange theory

Question 24

This theory proposes that emotion involves two factors physiological arousal and cognitive interpretation of the arousal.

Answer 24

Schachter-Singer theory

Question 25

The evolutionary perspective on emotion derives from ____ ______ and views emotions that serve an adaptive purpose

Answer 25

Charles Darwin

Question 26

Motives for achievement, mastery power, autonomy and self-orientated goals. This is known as:

Answer 26

Agency

Question 27

John Watson & B.F Skinner focus on the relationship between observable behaviors and environment is known as what perspective?

Answer 27

Behaviorist perspective

Question 28

A theory of worker motivation distinguish existence, relatedness and growth needs

Answer 28

ERG theory