AP Psychology - Motivation, Emotion, and Stress

Incentive Theory

• There is a reward for completing a task e.g. I go to work to get paid.
• You need stimulation so find an interesting task to participate in e.g. play a game.

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

Hunger hormone produced by empty tummies.

• Orexin
• Leptin
• Ghrelin
• Insulin

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

• lateral hypothalamus
• ventromedial hypothalamus
• hippocampus
• prefrontal cortex

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

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

• refractory periods

• sexual disorders

• hunger

• boredom

The tendency for one's body to return to  a balanced state is called:

• satisfaction
• deprivation
• homeostasis

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

Engaging in a behavior because it's personally rewarding is _______ motivation

• Intrinsic
• Instinct
• External

Second phase of general adaptation syndrome.

• Alarm reaction
• Plateau
• Resistance
• Resolution