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Unit 8 Practice Questions
Unit 8 Practice Questions
Unit 8 Practice Questions
2. Which of the following approaches to motivation assumes that motivation can come
from outside the person?
4. A friend of yours was recently in a car accident and suffered damage to his
ventromedial hypothalamus. What effect would you expect this damage to have on your
friend’s behaviour?
5. Which of the following is the hormone that the small intestines release to shut off
hunger?
a. insulin b. CCK
c. leptin d. serotonin
6. Craig is trying to stop drinking coffee. For the last year, Craig has consumed a full pot
of strong coffee every day, but today he has not had any coffee at all. How would you
expect Craig to be feeling?
7. ___ ensure(s) that that drug users will need to take higher and higher doses of their
preferred drug to experience the feeling of their first high.
a. withdrawl b. tolerance
Practice Questions – Unit 8: Motivation and Emotion
a. fear b. sadness
c. pride d. happiness
10. Derrick and Monique each went out on blind dates. Derrick took his date to dinner.
Monique took her date to a football game. According to the two-factor theory of emotion,
who is more likely to go out on a second date with their partner?
a. Derrick b. Monique
c. Both equally likely d. Two-factor theory can make no predictions about
this.
11. Mohammed and Betty are each stuck in a traffic jam. Mohammed remains calm, but
Betty begins to get very angry. Which theory of emotion best explains their different
emotions in this situation?