Motivation Review

Motivation is defined by psychologists 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.

For a thirsty person, drinking water serves to reduce

• a drive.

• an instinct.

• an incentive.

• homeostasis.

Positive and negative environmental stimuli that motivate behavior are called

• needs.

• incentives.

• instincts.

• drives.

The arousal theory of motivation would be most useful for understanding the aversive

effects of

• homeostasis.

• instincts.

• hunger.

• boredom.

The tendency for optimal levels of performance to be associated with moderate levels of

arousal is known as

• drive-reduction.

• homeostasis.

• the Yerkes-Dodson Law.

• self-actualization

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

the need for

• self-esteem.

• love and friendship.

• religious fulfillment.

• food and water.

Homeostasis, which is the goal of drive reduction, is defined as

• a rigidly patterned behavior characteristic of an entire species.

• an aroused tension state that is often triggered by a physiological need.

• the body's tendency to maintain a constant internal state.

• a physical need that usually triggers motivational arousal.