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Psychology – Chapter 12 – Motivation and Emotion – page 312
Directions: Please read the above chapter and complete the following questions/topics.
Section 1 – Define the following:
1.
Motivation
2. Instinct and Instinct Theory (William McDougall
3. Drive-Reduction Theory (Include need and drive) by Clark Hull and how it works
4. Homeostasis
5.
Harry Harlow’s theory about infant attachment to a mother
6. Incentive Theory
COGNITIVE THEORY
7. Intrinsic motivation and examples
8. Extrinsic motivation and examples
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Section 2: Biological and Social Motivation
1. How are our biological needs critical to our survival?
2. What motivates you to seek food?
3.
What is the glucostatic theory and how does it influence your hunger?
4.
What is the set-point?
5.
What are the biological factors that contribute to obesity?
6. What studies did Stanley Schachter and his colleagues at Columbia University conduct to
understand the causes of obesity?
7.
What’s the difference between people who are motivated by the need for achievement and
those motivated by a fear of failure?
8.
How are people motivated or limited by the fear of success?
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Copy Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs chart on page 327.
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Section 3: Emotion
9.
Define EMOTION.
10. What is emotional intelligence and how does it affect our behavior?
11. Give examples of negative and positive emotions (chart on page 329).
12. Explain the three parts of emotions (physical, behavioral, and cognitive)
13. Explain Darwin’s theory about the expression of basic feelings.
14. Explain Psychologist Carroll Izard’s method for assessing emotional states in people.
15. How is learning an important factor in emotional expression according to James Averill?
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16. Explain the following emotional theories:
a. James-Lange (physiological)
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b.
Cannon-Bard (physiological)
c.
Schachter-Singer (cognitive)
d.
Opponent-Process (cognitive)