PSY 352 EXAM 3 QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS
Definition of Motivation - Answers - Is a search for principles to help us understand why
animals and people initiate, choose or persist in specific actions in specific
circumstances.
Intrinsic - Answers - Gratification of non physiological needs. ( love, approval, family,
recreational) internal
Extrinsic - Answers - Gratification arising from job, compensation external gratification
What is the self Fulfilling prophecy? - Answers - People often perform at the level of our
expectations. If we expect employees/workers to perform a certain way, that behavior
and work related activity is influences by our expectations.
What is Behavior? - Answers - seek to explain action influences from the outside, not
internal causes or impulses. action is motivated by external events.
Freud - Answers - Psychodynamic theorist - See urges or impulses arising within the
person as the main source of motivation.
Cognitive theorist - Answers - se thinking, judging and rationalizing as leading action .
the person chooses or thinks about the outcome through judgment.
Prescott luckie theory - Answers - showed how negative preconcieved believes and
expectation build up resistances and convince people ahead of time that it would be
impossible for them to succeed.
What socrates view was? - Answers - Motivation is based not on self interest for
pleasure but on judgment for what is right. cognitive theorist. reinforcement is internal
reflexive behavior - Answers - is caused by physical behavior
Voluntary behavior - Answers - ...caused by mental events, the cause is not physical but
made by the will
What Thomas Hobb said? - Answers - Principle of association - if two sensory inputs
enter the brain together there will be a bond, or association formed between
corresponding images or memory.
ANSWERS
Definition of Motivation - Answers - Is a search for principles to help us understand why
animals and people initiate, choose or persist in specific actions in specific
circumstances.
Intrinsic - Answers - Gratification of non physiological needs. ( love, approval, family,
recreational) internal
Extrinsic - Answers - Gratification arising from job, compensation external gratification
What is the self Fulfilling prophecy? - Answers - People often perform at the level of our
expectations. If we expect employees/workers to perform a certain way, that behavior
and work related activity is influences by our expectations.
What is Behavior? - Answers - seek to explain action influences from the outside, not
internal causes or impulses. action is motivated by external events.
Freud - Answers - Psychodynamic theorist - See urges or impulses arising within the
person as the main source of motivation.
Cognitive theorist - Answers - se thinking, judging and rationalizing as leading action .
the person chooses or thinks about the outcome through judgment.
Prescott luckie theory - Answers - showed how negative preconcieved believes and
expectation build up resistances and convince people ahead of time that it would be
impossible for them to succeed.
What socrates view was? - Answers - Motivation is based not on self interest for
pleasure but on judgment for what is right. cognitive theorist. reinforcement is internal
reflexive behavior - Answers - is caused by physical behavior
Voluntary behavior - Answers - ...caused by mental events, the cause is not physical but
made by the will
What Thomas Hobb said? - Answers - Principle of association - if two sensory inputs
enter the brain together there will be a bond, or association formed between
corresponding images or memory.
