PSY 352 - MOTIVATION - EXAM 1
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questions with answers |\ |\
Motivation - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a need or desire that
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energizes and directs behavior. |\ |\ |\
Two fundamental questions in study of motivation -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1. What causes behavior? |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
2. Why does behavior vary in its intensity?
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Goals of studying motivation include - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔1. Trying to understand the when, what, and
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why we are motivated
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2. Applying what we learn to improving how we handle
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ourselves, our work, our relationships, our employers, and
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our employees etc.
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What does motivation benefit? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Adaptation and Functioning |\ |\
What do motivation and emotion direct? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔Attention |\
Motives can - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1. Capture Attention
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, 2. Interrupt what we are doing
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3. Distract us from doing other things
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4. Prepare us for motive-congruent action
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5. Impose a motive-congruent priority onto our thinking,
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feeling, and behaving
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Motivation is an intervening variable - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔X. Environmental event/cause which leads
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to Y |\
Y. Motivation/emotional processes arise in response to
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event which leads to Z
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Z. Certain behaviors and outcomes
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Theories of motivation and emotion aim to explain -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the why that underlies the cause
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Types of motivations exist - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1.
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Intrinsic Motivation vs. extrinsic motivation
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2.Mastery vs. Performance motivation
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3. Motivation to approach success vs. motivation to avoid
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failure
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questions with answers |\ |\
Motivation - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a need or desire that
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energizes and directs behavior. |\ |\ |\
Two fundamental questions in study of motivation -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1. What causes behavior? |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
2. Why does behavior vary in its intensity?
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Goals of studying motivation include - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔1. Trying to understand the when, what, and
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why we are motivated
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2. Applying what we learn to improving how we handle
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ourselves, our work, our relationships, our employers, and
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our employees etc.
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What does motivation benefit? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Adaptation and Functioning |\ |\
What do motivation and emotion direct? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔Attention |\
Motives can - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1. Capture Attention
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, 2. Interrupt what we are doing
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3. Distract us from doing other things
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4. Prepare us for motive-congruent action
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5. Impose a motive-congruent priority onto our thinking,
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feeling, and behaving
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Motivation is an intervening variable - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔X. Environmental event/cause which leads
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to Y |\
Y. Motivation/emotional processes arise in response to
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event which leads to Z
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Z. Certain behaviors and outcomes
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Theories of motivation and emotion aim to explain -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the why that underlies the cause
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Types of motivations exist - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1.
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Intrinsic Motivation vs. extrinsic motivation
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2.Mastery vs. Performance motivation
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3. Motivation to approach success vs. motivation to avoid
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failure
