Question 1

Describe the needs for achievement and affiliation.Identify some of the characteristics associated with each of these needs.How are these needs often assessed?

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Question 2

Identify the three functions of emotions outlined in the text.Provide original examples to illustrate each function.

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Question 3

Compare and contrast the James-Lange and Schachter-Singer theories of emotion.

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Question 4

Gwen eats huge amounts of food in a single sitting,then vomits and uses laxatives to purge the excess food.Gwen appears to suffer from _____.

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Question 5

Survey the evidence regarding cross-cultural variability and cross-cultural universality in the experience and expression of emotion.

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Question 6

List three things you remember doing in the past day or two.Explain why you performed each behavior using one or more of the approaches to understanding motivation described in the text.

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Question 7

A(n)_____ is a female sex hormone secreted by the ovaries.

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Question 8

_____ is the point at which an egg is released from the ovaries.

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Question 9

A "gut" reaction of internal organs is more formally termed a(n)_____.

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Question 10

Review what is known regarding the roots of obesity.Distinguish between the set point and the settling point hypotheses.

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Question 11

The _____,or TAT,is a projective test used to assess needs such as the need for achievement.

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Question 12

Rory and his friends are practicing free throws.They are goofing around,disregarding the line painted on the concrete.Although one friend stands quite close to the basket to practically guarantee sinking the ball,Rory stands at a more challenging intermediate distance.Rory has a _____ need for achievement than is his friend.

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Question 13

_____ is sexual self-stimulation.

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Question 14

"Smile,even though your heart is breaking," suggests a standard in the American songbook.Good advice? Make reference to facial-affect programs and the facial-feedback hypothesis in your answer.

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Question 15

The _____ is important in the experience of emotions for it provides a link between the perception of an emotion producing stimulus and the recall of that stimulus later.

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Question 16

Review the biological factors involved in the regulation of hunger.Make sure you discuss what areas of the brain may be involved with hunger and what blood chemicals are involved.

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Question 17

Supply four of the pieces of advice the text provides for successful dieting and weight loss.How might you have to change your current routine to follow your text's advice if you wished to lose weight or prevent unwanted weight gain?

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Question 18

The prominent early American psychologist _____ argued that rather than crying because we feel hurt,"we feel sorry because we cry."

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Question 19

Briefly describe instinct,drive-reduction,arousal,incentive,and cognitive approaches to motivation.Suggest how these approaches reflect broad evolutionary,biological,behavioral,and cognitive approaches in psychology.

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Question 20

Establishing and maintaining relationships is very important to Amelia;she has a high need for _____.

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Quiz 8: Cognition and Language