Quiz: Motivation and Emotion

Directions: Respond to the following items with either true or false. When you have responded to all items, click the Score button at the bottom of the page.

1.

The drive reduction theory was developed by Clark Hull.
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False

2.

Arousal theory argues that we need a specific amount of arousal in order to feel comfortable.
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False

3.

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs argues for five levels of needs beginning with physiological needs and ending with our need for self-actualization.
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False

4.

Maslow was a psychoanalytic theorist.
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False

5.

According to the Cannon-Bard theory of emotion, we experience an even and then experience both physiological arousal and emotion at the same time.
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False

6.

According to the Lazarus theory of emotion, a thought will always precede an emotion.
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False

7.

Without identifying a reason for physiological changes, we can not experience emotions according to the Schachter-Singer theory..
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False

8.

The facial feedback theory of emotion argues that we experience emotions through our interpretation of other people facial expressions.
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False

9.

Freud believed that there are only two drives that motivate us in all of our behaviors. These drives are called Eros and Thanatos..
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False

10.

Some argue that we are motivated by internally bred needs called instincts and that these instincts are present at birth.
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False