The biological, emotional, cognitive, or social forces that activate and direct behavior together
constitute are defined as:
a) instinct
b)inference
c) responsiveness
d) motivation correct answers motivation
The repeated and uncontrollable irrational thoughts that cause anxiety, known as ______, differ
from the repetitive behaviors or mental acts that are performed to reduce anxiety, known as
correct answers compulsions
The study of how people change physically, mentally, and socially throughout the lifespan would
MOST likely be conducted by a _____ psychologist. correct answers developmental
The three basic characteristics commonly associated with motivation are : activation, _______,
and intensity
a) instinct
b) homeostasis
c) persistence
d) drives correct answers persistence
Although not yet aware of her pregnancy, Mrs. Upton has conceived a single cell from the union
of an egg cell and sperm cell. This single cell is called a:
a) zygote
b) fetus
c) embryo
d) baby correct answers zygote
Your friend Jen is so motivated to become a nurse that she has decided to attend an accelerated
nursing program and work very hard to get through it. You see in her behavior the three basic
characteristics commonly associated with motivation, which are: correct answers activation,
persistence, and intensity
Nine months after conception, a baby girl named Tracy is born. The stages of her prenatal
development, from first to last were: correct answers germinal, embryonic, fetal
Your brother enthusiastically tells you, with great enthusiasm, that he is determined and has
decided to run enter the marathon. To prepare, he has been running every morning in
preparation. This initiation or production of behavior associated with motivation is also known
as:
a) intensity
b) activation
c) emotion
d) persistence correct answers activation
, The embryonic period is:
a) the transitional stage between childhood and the beginning of adulthood
b) the second period of prenatal development, extending from the third week through the eighth
week
c) The first two weeks of prenatal development
d) the third and longest period of prenatal development, extending from the ninth week until
birth correct answers The second period of prenatal development, extending from the third week
through the eighth week
The mood disorder characterized by periods of incapacitating depression alternating with periods
of extreme euphoria and excitement is known as _____ disorder. correct answers bipolar
During your drive to school one morning, you suddenly remember that your psychology paper is
due today, and that it is not finished. You feel your heart start to beat fast as your experience fear
and anxiety about what to do. You decide to call your psychology professor in his office and
explain things. You have just experienced the psychological components of emotion, which are:
correct answers experience psychological response & behavioral/expressive component
Henrietta is in the fifth week of her pregnancy, which means that her baby is in the _____ period
of prenatal development.
a) germinal
b) zygotic
c) embryonic
d) fetal correct answers embryonic
According to _____ theories, people are motivated to engage in certain behaviors because of
evolutionary programming correct answers instinct
Pregnant Michelle has begun to feel fuller more quickly when she east, and she is having more
trouble physically getting around. Michelle's unborn baby has likely entered the third and longest
period of prenatal development, called the:
a) zygotic period
b) embryonic period
c) fetal period
d) germinal period correct answers fetal period
An instinct theorist would argue that the motivation to engage in certain behaviors is the result
of: correct answers evolutionary programming
Teratogens are:
a) Harmful agents or substances that cane cause malformations or defects in an embryo or fetus
b) agents or substances that protect the embryo and the fetus
c) long threadlike structures composed of twisted parallel strands of DNA
d) the chemical basis of heredity correct answers harmful agents or substances that can cause
malformations or defects in an embryo or fetus