Motivation and Emotion

The tendency of the body to maintain a steady state of functioning is called _______________.

• intrinsic motivation

• equilibrium

• homeostasis

• drive reduction

The experience of feelings such as fear, joy, surprise and anger.

• Drive
• Motivation
• Emotion
• Interaction

Proposed a hierarchy of needs that suggests a strive toward self-actualization when other needs are met.

• Alfred Kinsey
• Masters & Johnson
• Abraham Maslow
• Paul Ekman

Theory of emotion that suggests physical arousal and emotional experience arise simultaneously.

• Yerkes-Dodson
• James-Lange
• Cannon-Bard
• Two-Factor

Needs, wants, interests and desires that propel people in certain directions are known as

• drives
• motives
• incentives
• habits

The most basic or lowest-level need in Maslow's hierarchy of human needs includes the need for

• self-esteem.
• love and friendship.
• religious fulfillment.
• food and water.

Leiko is more afraid of being alone than of remaining in a physically abusive relationship with her boyfriend. This best illustrates the potentially harmful impact of ________ needs.

• self-transcendence
• belongingness
• sexual
• safety

The James-Lange theory of emotion states that

• to experience emotion is to be aware of our physiological responses to an emotion-arousing event.
• expression of emotion reduces our level of physiological arousal.
• an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers both physiological arousal and the subjective experience of emotion.
• to experience emotion we must be physically aroused and able to cognitively label the emotion.

Heart rate, blood pressure, and blood sugar levels are increased in times of emergency by

• the parasympathetic nervous system.
• stress hormones.
• the immune system.
• glucose.

Type of motivation in which a person performs an action because the act itself is rewarding or satisfying in some internal manner

• Humanistic theory of motivation
• Hierarchy of needs
• Intrinsic motivation
• Extrinsic motivation