Motivation and Emotion

The sympathetic nervous system is designed to….

• Return the body to a state of homeostasis 
• Prepare the body and mind for fight or flight
• Release dopamine to increase motivation
• Turn off the emotional center (amygdala) in the brain.

Responsible for controlling the fear response and non-verbal interpretations.

• Thalamus
• Hypothalamus
• Amygdala
• Hippocampus

The parasympathetic nervous system is designed to...

• Return the body to a state of homeostasis 
• Prepare the body and mind for fight or flight
• Release dopamine to increase motivation
• Turn off the emotional center (amygdala) in the brain.

When you adjust your emotions to those of people around you, it is known as the

• adaptation-level phenomenon

• spillover effect

• feel-good, do-good phenomenon

• relative deprivation phenomenon

According to James Russell, our emotions fall between two dimensions. Where does the emotion of enthusiasm fall?

• high arousal, unpleasant

• high arousal, pleasant

• low arousal, unpleasant

• low arousal, pleasant

Which of the following explains why the positioning of facial muscles can negatively or positively affect our emotions?

• relative deprivation

• feel good, do good phenomenon

• adaptation-level phenomenon

• facial feedback phenomenon

Which of the following hunger hormones is secreted in the hypothalamus?

• Ghrelin

• Insulin

• Orexin

• Leptin

Which of the following hunger hormones is secreted in your fat tissue?

• leptin

• orexin

• ghrelin

• insulin

An increase in orexin causes

• an increase in hunger

• a decrease in hunger

An increase in insulin causes

• an increase in hunger

• a decrease in hunger