PSY 1001 Study Guide - Final Guide: Projective Test, Reality Principle, Heritability
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Motivation is defined by psychologists as: an impulse to accomplish something of significance, rigidly patterned behavior characteristic of all people, a need or desire that energizes and directs behavior towards a goal, the cause of behavior. An instinctive behavior is one that is: designed to reduce drives, triggered by a sexual incentive, similar in all living organisms, unlearned. An aroused, motivated state that is often triggered by a physiological need is called a(n: instinct, incentive, drive, set point. Which of the following is clearly not an example of an incentive: , threat of punishment, smell of popcorn, dehydration. Positive and negative environmental stimuli that motivate behavior are called: needs, incentives, set points, drives. The basic components of emotion are: sympathetic arousal, parasympathetic inhibition, and cognitive labeling, physical gestures, facial expressions, and psychological drives, expressive behaviors, physiological arousal, and conscious experience, cognition, affect, and behavior.
