PSYCHOLOGY – Motivation & Emotion
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NOTES/STUDY GUIDE – MOTIVATION & EMOTION
Textbook pages: ______________________
DIRECTIONS: Use your textbook, class discussion, and any other available resource(s) to complete the following
questions.
1. Define motivation!
2. Briefly describe the Drive-Reduction theory of motivation.
3. According to Harry Harlow’s research, what is one of the main motivators for children to become
attached to their mothers? Explain.
4. Briefly describe the Incentive theory of motivation.
5. Briefly describe the Cognitive theory of motivation.
6. How are intrinsic and extrinsic motivation different?
7. How do biological needs and social needs differ? Give an example of each.
8. Explain what a set point is, and how, as a genetic hunger factor, it can influence your weight.
9. What is Need for Achievement and how can it effect your motivation?
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10. How can the Fear of Failure impact motivation?
11. What is the purpose of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs?
12. Draw and Label Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
13. Define emotion.
14. How are motivation and emotion related?
15. What four things happen when we feel an emotion?
16. List and describe the differences between the Physiological and Cognitive theories of emotion
17. According to Paul Ekman, what are the universal facial expressions?
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