PSYC1004: Chapter 9: Motivation and
Emotion 2024/2025 Exam Questions
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Motivation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a need or desire that energizes and directs
behavior.
Instinct - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a complex behavior that is rigidly patterned
throughout a species and is unlearned.
Physiological Need - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a basic bodily requirement.
Drive-Reduction Theory - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the idea that a physiological
need creates an aroused tension state (a drive) that motivates an organism
to satisfy the need.
Homeostasis - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a tendency to maintain a balanced or
constant internal state; the regulation of any aspect of body chemistry, such
as blood glucose, around a particular level.
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, Incentive - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a positive or negative environmental stimulus
that motivates behavior.
Yerkes-Dodson Law - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the principle that performance
increases with arousal only up to a point, beyond which performance
decreases.
Hierarchy of Needs - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Maslow's pyramid of human needs,
beginning at the base with physiological needs that must first be satisfied
before people can fulfill their higher-level safety needs and then
psychological needs.
Affiliation Need - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the need to build relationships and to feel
part of a group.
Self-Determination Theory - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the theory that we feel
motivated to satisfy our needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness.
Ostracism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔deliberate social exclusion of individuals or
groups.
Narcissism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔excessive self-love and self-absorption.
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Emotion 2024/2025 Exam Questions
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Motivation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a need or desire that energizes and directs
behavior.
Instinct - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a complex behavior that is rigidly patterned
throughout a species and is unlearned.
Physiological Need - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a basic bodily requirement.
Drive-Reduction Theory - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the idea that a physiological
need creates an aroused tension state (a drive) that motivates an organism
to satisfy the need.
Homeostasis - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a tendency to maintain a balanced or
constant internal state; the regulation of any aspect of body chemistry, such
as blood glucose, around a particular level.
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, Incentive - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a positive or negative environmental stimulus
that motivates behavior.
Yerkes-Dodson Law - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the principle that performance
increases with arousal only up to a point, beyond which performance
decreases.
Hierarchy of Needs - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Maslow's pyramid of human needs,
beginning at the base with physiological needs that must first be satisfied
before people can fulfill their higher-level safety needs and then
psychological needs.
Affiliation Need - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the need to build relationships and to feel
part of a group.
Self-Determination Theory - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the theory that we feel
motivated to satisfy our needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness.
Ostracism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔deliberate social exclusion of individuals or
groups.
Narcissism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔excessive self-love and self-absorption.
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