Unit 8 MESH Test

Motivation is the defined by psychologist as...

• an impulse to accomplish something of significance

• Rigidly patterned behavior characteristic of all people

• A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior toward a goal

• The cause of behavior

• An external reward or goal that pushes a person toward accomplishments

A complex, unlearned, and fixed pattern of behavior common to all members of a species is called a(n)

• Set point

• Drive

• Instinct

• Need

• Incentive

It is characteristic of robins to build nests. This is an example of

• A set point

• Homeostasis

• A drive

• A need

• An instinct

Contemporary psychologists are most likely to consider ___________ to be a human instinct.

• Infant sucking

• Curiosity

• The need to belong

• Religious ritual

• The experience of flow

Like evolutionary psychology, instinct theory most clearly assumed that behavior is influenced by

• Homeostasis

• Set points

• Incentives

• Genetic predispositions

Psychologists have used four perspectives in their efforts to explain motivation. These include an emphasis on instincts, optimum arousal, a hierarchy of motives, and

• Drive reduction

• Set points

• Refractory periods

• Basal metabolic rate

• A fixed behavior pattern

Which of the following refers to a physiological state that usually triggers a state of motivational arousal?

• Need

• Homeostasis

• Instinct

• Drive

• Incentive

For a thirsty person, drinking water serves to reduce

• Homeostasis

• A drive

• An instinct

• The set point

• Basal metabolic rate

Food deprivation is to ____________ as hunger is to _______________.

• Homeostasis; thirst

• Incentive; instinct

• Need; drive

• Motivation; emotion

• Anorexia; bulimia

The term “homeostasis” literally means

• “Common to all”

• “Unique to humans”

• “Staying the same”

• “Motivational dynamics”

• “Constant stimulation”