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Motiv-otion!
Motiv-otion!
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A quick review of the concepts studied during our #appsych unit on Motivation & Emotion.
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You don't hear your mom's request to wash the dishes when you're watching TV. This shows:
choice blindness
the opponent-process theory
gate-control theory
selective attention
2
Your perception of a stressful event directly relates to:
your physical health
how much stress you experience
how you describe the event to others
drive-reduction theory
3
People are less likely to support "welfare" than "aid to the needy." This demonstrates:
random sampling
wording effects
hindsight bias
placebo effect
4
Emotional regulation happens here.
the limbic system
brainstem
corpus callosum
prefrontal cortex
5
What does the "magical number 7 plus or minus two" refer to?
capacity of short term memory
correlation coefficients
serial position effect
the law of chunking
6
The dependent variable is the research variable that:
responds
is manipulated
is controlled
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Correlation ____ causation.
proves
does not prove
8
Evidence of sensitivity to red, blue, and green light supports this theory:
Young-Helmholtz (trichromatic) theory
RBG theory
opponent-process theory
gestalt theory
9
According to APA Ethics, you must:
pay experimental participants handsomely
explain research after a study
tell research participants your exact hypotheses
not manipulate any variables
10
If a therapist investigates a client's current life situation & personal history, they employ:
a survey
an experiment
a case study
naturalistic observation
11
You threw up some Thai food. You can't handle Thai food anymore. This is:
James-Lange theory.
a refractory period.
the saddest story ever.
the Garcia effect,
12
If you isolate people, these needs will be complicated:
love and belongingness
self-transcendence
safety
esteem
13
The Rorshach test is this kind of personality assessment:
congruence test
social-cognitive exam
projective test
personality inventory
14
All of the following are stages of the sexual response cycle except:
touching
orgasm
plateau
initial excitement
15
You get hit in the back of the head and struggle with balance. Your ____ has been affected.
motor cortex
limbic system
brainstem
cerebellum
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Knowing the tall, skinny glass & short, fat glass have the same amount of water in them is:
the theory of mind
maturation
object permanence
conservation
17
You give Cooper a treat when he "shakes." The treat increases the frequency of shakes and is a:
incentive
discriminator
reinforcer
punishment
18
Intrinsic motivations might last longer because:
they are processed by the hippocampus.
they are more meaningful.
extrinsic motivations are material and temporary.
they are not effortfully processed.
19
This theory claims that physiological reactions and cognitive labels produce emotion.
Lange-Bard
James-Lange
Schachter two-factor
Cannon-Bard
20
If you have no friends, your __________ needs are complicated.
safety
love and belongingness
esteem
self-actualization
21
E.L. Thorndike (cats in a puzzle box guy) was behind this contribution to psychology:
hypnosis
the law of effect
classical conditioning
positive reinforcement
22
Drive-reduction theory helps create an aroused state that motivates you to:
reduce your needs.
seek even more arousal
follow your instinct
focus on your physiology.
23
We see what we want to see because of:
confirmation bias
linguistic determinism
functional fixedness
schemas
24
General adaptation syndrome (GAS) indicates how we deal with:
stress
sex
weight gain
arousal
25
The resistance phase of Seyle's general adaptation system can:
reduce your drive to eat
deplete your physical resources
help you calm down
cause disease
26
Info gets from the brain to the spinal cord via:
the peripheral nervous system
interneurons
sensory neurons
the endocrine system
27
What do we call a need or desire that energizes and directs behavior?
drive
motivation
your mom
incentive
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Kinesthesis is how you:
sense the position of body parts
rely on muscle memory
coordinate your movement
produce movement
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Source amnesia occurs when:
you lose implicit memories
you are unsure of where you heard something
you take credit for work that is not your own
you lose explicit memories
30
The highest level of Maslow's hierarchy of needs is:
love and belongingness
esteem
self-actualization
self-transcendence
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The balanced physiological state we get by satisfying our needs is:
homebasis
heteronormity
homeostasis
basal metabolic rate
32
Once you've achieved homeostasis, this theory says you'll seek more arousal:
incentive theory
drive-reduction theory
hierarchy of needs
arousal theory
33
The brain structure that helps you know when to eat (and when to stop eating) is the:
hypothalamus
thalamus
cerebellum
hippocampus
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Neural impulses cross the ____ to move from one neuron to the next.
soma
axon channel
synapse
threshold
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Sexual orientation is dictated by:
homosexual parents
childhood trauma
masculinity or femininity
none of the above
