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Amanda experience discomfort in class she put on a sweater when she realized her discomfort was caused by the cold her behavior is motivated by

A drive

When parents refuse to accept several psychologist diagnosis of a child's mental illness they are using which of the following defense mechanisms

Denial

Pam works hard in school because her parents give her $10 for every age she receives hamsters are attempting to influence her academic efforts by capitalizing on

Extrinsic motivation

Incentive theories of motivation explain the desire of people to achieve goals in terms of

External stimuli that have the capacity to affect behavior

A tumor that destroys the ventromedial hypothalamus is likely to produce which of the following

Frequent eating and obesity

Which of the following at Fred doing constructs is believed to protect the organism from anxiety by making memories in accessible

Repression

Research studies indicate that people who are in strength tickly motivated as compared to people or extrinsically motivated to tend

Work harder and enjoy their work more

Arousal performance graph associated with what

Yokes law

Which of the following is the best example of a homeostatic process

Cathy drinks a large amount of water to reduce thirst after a long race

The Nero transmitter that is probably associated with the feeling of wanting something is

Dopamine

An individual experience of low blood glucose level would be the best advice to do which of the following

Eat a snack

According to Abraham Maslow's heritage of needs the need to have respect for ourselves and to be valued by others is classified within the category of

Esteem needs

Which of the following best describes the relation between performance and arousal

Graph A

Which of the following concepts explains motivation in terms of an organism seeking to maintain its biological equilibrium

Homeostasis

Which of the following concepts provides the best explanation of why people seek to put on a warmer clothing when they start to feel cold

Homeostasis

A complex pattern of organize a learned behavior that is specific is called

Instinct

Genetically programmed action pattern is the ethnologists definition of

Instinct

Carla tutors other students because she likes to be helpful where is Jan tutors classmates stick lights for pay their behavior demonstrates a difference between

Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation

The graph above supports which of the following statements

Optimal performance as a function of task difficulty in level of arousal

Alfred Kinsley use the method that allowed for extensive information to be controlled from discussions with individual participants. The research method that he used and his research contributions were

Personal interviews sexual behavior in women

According to Abraham Maslow's here if you have needs which of the following statements is true

Psychological needs must be met before an individual achieve self actualization

Which of the following correctly list Abraham Maslow's here here of needs from bottom to top

Psychological safety belonging to steam self accusation

When given a drug that produce a general or Rosegold research participants placed in a room with a happy confederate describe their emotional state is happy, well those placed in a room with an angry confederate describe their emotional state as angry which theory of emotion best explains lose results

Schachter singer

According to Albert Bandura people who believe that their efforts will be successful and they are in control events have a high level of

Self efficiency

An example of a primary drive is

Sleeping

Drive reduction as a motivation concept is best exemplified by which of the following

The injection of heroin by an attic to avoid withdrawal symptoms

Students who enjoyed solving a puzzle rewarded for doing so later they played less with the puzzle then did her counter parents who are not rewarded for the same test this illustrates which of the following principles

The over justification affect

A brain tumor that results in obesity would most likely be located in the

area of the hypothalamus

Theories of motivation that assert the existence of biological motives to maintain the body in a steady state are called

homeostatic

an animal will gain weight when

its ventromedial hypothalamus is damaged


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