AP Psychology - Motivation, Emotion and Personality

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 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

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

For a thirsty person, drinking water serves to reduce:

• homeostasis.
• a drive.
• an instinct.
• the set point.

Hans Selye referred to the body's response to stress as:

• the fight-or-flight response.
• the general adaptation syndrome.
• Type B behavior.
• psychophysiological illness.

Which theory would be most helpful for explaining why people are motivated to watch horror movies?

• James-Lange theory
• drive-reduction theory
• Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory
• arousal theory

Motivational theory that focuses on internal states of tension, such as hunger, that motivate us to pursue actions that reduce tension

• Drive reduction theory
• Instinct theory
• Arousal theory
• Incentive theory