AP Psychology Motivation, Emotion & Stress

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.

• an external reward or goal that pushes a person toward accomplishments.

Food deprivation is to ________ as hunger is to ________.

• homeostasis; thirst

• incentive; instinct

• need; drive

• motivation; emotion

• anorexia; bulimia

Which theory would be most likely to predict that rats are motivated to explore precisely those areas of an experimental maze where they receive mild electrical shocks?

• arousal theory

• hierarchy of needs

• instinct theory

• drive-reduction theory

• two-factor theory

Maslow referred to the needs for purpose and meaning that lie beyond the self as

• belongingness needs.

• self-esteem needs.

• self-transcendence needs

• self-actualization needs

• homeostatis needs