Motivation and Emotion Psychology

anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise are included under this heading

6 basic emotions

According to _______, people need to organize their perceptions, opinions, and beliefs in a harmonious maner

Balance Theory

I conducted a famous experiment known as the Bobo Doll study

Bandvre

I am limited in my ability to explain personality because i do not describe or explain inner human experience

Behaviorism

Biological needs and psychological needs give rise to

Drives

_________include good grades and good income

Extrinsic Rewards

Both heredity and psychological factors are causes of weight loss

False; causes of obesity

Body language expresses six basic emotions

False; facial expressions

Extroverts tend to look inward rather than to other people for their ideas

False; introverts

A need is a stimulus that moves a person to behave in ways designed to accomplish a specific goal

False; motive

The lateral hypothalamus is the 'stop-eating' center of the brain

False; ventromedial hypothalamus

Social-Learning theory, like behaviorism, does not pay enough attention to the role i play in determining individual differences in behavior

Genetic Variation

Abraham Maslow devised a _____________ to organize human requirements that may be lacking

Hierarchy of Needs

i am the part of the brain involved in the regulation of body temperature and various aspects of psychological motivation

Hypothalamus

I satisfy learning goals with qualities such as self-satisfaction

Intrinsic Rewards

In my 1948 novel Walden Two, I described a utopian society in which people are happy and content

Skinner

A trait is an aspect of personality

True

Emotions are states of feeling that can be positive, negative, or neural

True

Homeostasis works like a thermostat

True

Introverts and extroverts are at opposite poles

True

Self-Actualization refers to the need to become what one is capable of being

True

People who are driven to get ahead are said to have high___________

achievement motivation

I embody ideas and images of experience of all human beings

archetype

I am the theory that believes people want their thoughts and attitudes to be consistent with their actions

cognitive dissonance theory

the forces that motivate an organism to take action

drives

I am the psychological structure in the mind that represents reason and good sense

ego

positive ones make life worth living and negative ones make life difficult

emotion

a tendency to maintain a state of equilibrium in the body

homeostasis

Behavior patterns genetically transmitted from generation to generation

insincts

I am the 'start eating center' in the brain

lateral hypothalamus

part of the brain that functions as a 'start-eating' center

lateral hypothalamus

a stimulus that moves a person to behave in ways designed to accomplish a specific goal

motive

a condition in which we require something we lack

need

applies to more than six out of ten adult Americans

obese

I send my impulses outward on to other people, seeing my faults in other people

projection

in addition to heredity, i also play a role in obesity

psychological factors

I am the defense mechanism that uses self-deception to justify unacceptable behaviors or idea

rationalization

I remove anxiety-causing ideas from consciousness by pushing them into the unconscious

repression

ability to keep alive or sustain with nourishment

sustain

part of the brain that functions as a 'stop-eating' center

ventromedial hypothalamus