AP Psychology - Motivation, Emotion, and Stress

Researcher who found that emotional responses of participants injected with epinephrine depended upon their interpretation of the situation they were placed in.

• William James
• Hans Selye
• Stanley Schachter
• Ancel Keys

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

Stimulation of this area would cause a rat to begin eating.

• lateral hypothalamus
• ventromedial hypothalamus
• hippocampus
• prefrontal cortex

The body's resting rate of energy burn.

• Basal metabolic rate
• Set point
• Homeostasis
• Drive-Reduction

The Yerkes-Dodson Law predicts that most people would perform an easy task best if they are at a 

• high level of arousal
• low level of arousal
• baseline state
• level of self-actualization

What is the principle difference between achievement motivation and optimum arousal theory?

• Achievement motivation is a specific example of arousal motivation.
• Arousal theory describes the optimum level of general arousal an individual seeks, while achievement motivation concerns what type of goals the individual is motivated to achieve.
• Arousal theory refers to stages in our responses to stress. Achievement motivation is not used to describe motivation due to stress.
• A person with low optimum arousal would have high achievement motivation.

Second phase of general adaptation syndrome.

• Alarm reaction
• Plateau
• Resistance
• Resolution

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

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

Theory of motivation that suggests our behaviors are influenced by attraction to or repulsion from the positive or negative qualities of external stimuli.

• Instincts
• Drive-Reduction
• Incentives
• Evolutionary

________________ proposed a theory that described emotion as beginning with undifferentiated arousal. The specific emotional label we use to describe the arousal depends on our interpretation of the context.

• James-Lange Theory

• Cannon-Bard Theory

• Schacter and Singer Theory

• Tim Adams' Harvard Study