Motivation Subcategories

Motivation

Cutting sensory nerves from the stomach, or removing it entirely, causes:

A. a total loss of appetite
B. eating based on recognized need, not internal feelings of hunger
C. some changes in eating, but hunger still occurs
D. the need for patients to be “trained” to eat; otherwise they would inadvertently starve to death

Developing assessments tools for selecting and placing employees is of most direct relevance to:

A. personnel psychology
B. social psychology
C. organizational psychology
D. clinical psychology

The first meaningful, scientific study of human sexuality was survey research performed by:

A. Alfred Kinsey
B. Masters and Johnson
C. David Buss
D. Sigmund Freud

Although Cara has been obese for as long as she can remember, she is determined to lose excess body weight with a low-calories diet. Cara is most likely to have difficulty becoming and staying thin because:

A. the number of calories a person consumes daily has no effect on body weight
B. she may have a higher-than-average set point for body weight
C. her resting metabolic rate will increase and prompt her to over eat vigorous exercise
D. fat cells can be lost only with vigorous exercise

If the lateral hypothalamus is destroyed a rat will:

A. drink more water than biologically needed
B. refuse to drink until forced to do so
C. eat until it becomes obese
D. refuse to eat until force fed

After studying artists who would spend hour after hour painting or sculpting with enormous concentration, Csikszentmihalyi formulated the concept of:

A. flow
B. strengths-based selection
C. transformation leadership
D. achievement motivation

Experiments with rats, monkeys and humans using sham feeding have advanced our knowledge about food intake by demonstrating that:

A. Satiety and reward signals are necessary to control eating
B. Taste and smell stop food-seeking
C. Gastric distension is caused by sham feeding
D. Satiety motivates food-seeking behavior

After finishing a marathon, Adena grabs a water bottle and quickly drinks all of its contents in an attempt to satisfy a (n)_______drive.

A. extrinsic
B. secondary
C. learned
D. primary

The satiety system is to the feeding system as the_______hypothalamus is to the_______hypothalamus.

A. ventromedial; lateral
B. lateral; ventromedial
C. non-homeostatic; homeostatic
D. cyclic; episodic

Which of the following has not been found in research on gender differences in sexual interest?

A. Men think about sex more than women
B. Men initiate sex more than women
C. Women are more interested in having many partners than men are
D. Women are less interested in uncommitted sex