Psychology And Your Life With P.O.W.E.R Learning 4th Edition By Robert Feldman – Test Bank

Psychology And Your Life With P.O.W.E.R Learning 4th Edition By Robert Feldman – Test Bank

Psychology and Your Life with P.O.W.E.R Learning, 4e (Feldman)
Chapter 7 Motivation and Emotion

1) ________ refers to the factors that direct and energize the behavior of humans and other organisms.
A) Development
B) Intelligence
C) Cognition
D) Motivation

2) Declan, a PhD candidate, tells his department’s undergraduate student organization that his dissertation research is in the area of motivation. Declan is investigating
A) the ability to generate new solutions to problems.
B) the way behavior changes as a result of experience.
C) the factors that direct and energize the behavior of humans and other organisms.
D) the processes whereby information is encoded, stored, and retrieved.

3) ________ are inborn patterns of behavior that are biologically determined rather than learned.
A) Desires
B) Instincts
C) Notions
D) Motives

4) Which of the following is true of instinct approaches to motivation?
A) Instinct approaches state that people try to maintain a steady level of stimulation and activity.
B) Instinct theorists suggest that a lack of basic biological requirements produces a drive to obtain those requirements.
C) Instinct theorists agree on the precise instincts that guide human behavior.
D) Instinct approaches fail to explain why certain patterns of behavior have appeared in a given species.

5) Instinct approaches to motivation
A) explain that people are driven by curiosity and engage in thrill-seeking behavior.
B) focus on an individual’s drive to fulfill a need.
C) suggest people and animals are born preprogrammed with sets of behaviors essential to their survival.
D) state that people try to maintain a steady level of stimulation and activity.

6) The first two theoretical approaches to motivation that attained prominence in the history of modern psychology were
A) the incentive approach and then the instinct approach.
B) the incentive approach and then the drive-reduction approach.
C) the drive-reduction approach and then the arousal approach.
D) the instinct approach and then the drive-reduction approach.

7) Drive-reduction approaches to motivation are
A) theories that suggest a lack of some basic biological need produces a drive to satisfy that need.
B) theories that suggest people try to maintain certain levels of stimulation and activity.
C) theories that suggest motivation stems from the desire to obtain valued external goals.
D) theories that suggest motivation is a product of people’s thoughts, expectations, and goals.

8) Which approach to motivation is correctly paired with a behavior to which it is especially appropriate?
A) drive-reduction – eating
B) arousal – studying
C) cognitive – riding roller coasters
D) incentive – sleeping

9) Motivational tension or arousal that energizes behavior to fulfill a need is known as a(n)
A) drive.
B) reflex.
C) incentive.
D) instinct.