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AP Psychology - Motivation, Emotion, and Stress

Authored by KATHRYN MCCOMAS

Social Studies

10th - 12th Grade

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AP Psychology - Motivation, Emotion, and Stress
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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.

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Hunger hormone produced by empty tummies.

Orexin
Leptin
Ghrelin
Insulin

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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

lateral hypothalamus
ventromedial hypothalamus
hippocampus
prefrontal cortex

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

refractory periods

sexual disorders

hunger

boredom

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

satisfaction
deprivation
homeostasis

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