Multiple Choice Questions

About eight months ago, 14-year-old Shelley went on a drastic weight-loss diet that caused her to drop from 110 to 80 pounds. Although she is now dangerously underweight and under-nourished, she continues to think she looks fat. Her frustrated father recently forced her to eat a peanut butter sandwich, but Shelley immediately went to the bathroom and threw it all up. Shelley most clearly suffers from
  • settling point
  • bulimia nervosa
  • anorexia nervosa
  • Majority; Minority
Homeostasis, which is the goal of drive reduction, is defined as
  • ...
  • incentives
  • the body's tendency to maintain a constant internal state
  • adequate clothing; self-esteem
Hunger is increased by ________; it is decreased by ________.
  • ...
  • incentives
  • the body's tendency to maintain a constant internal state
  • instinct
The role of learning in motivation is most obvious from the influence of
  • instinct
  • drive reduction
  • incentives
  • bulimia nervosa
Victims of a famine will often eat unappetizing and nutritionally poor foods simply to relieve their constant hunger. Their behavior is best explained in terms of
  • Incentive theory
  • drive
  • hierarchy of needs theory
  • settling point
Financial satisfaction is more strongly predictive of subjective well-being in poor nations than in wealthy ones. This fact would most clearly be anticipated by
  • hierarchy of needs theory
  • settling point
  • adequate clothing; self-esteem
  • Majority; Minority
A complex, unlearned, and fixed pattern of behavior common to all members of a species is called a(n)
  • adequate clothing; self-esteem
  • instinct
  • settling point
  • incentives
Psychologists have used four perspectives in their efforts to explain motivation. These include an emphasis on instincts, optimum arousal, a hierarchy of motives, and
  • bulimia nervosa
  • drive reduction
  • Majority; Minority
  • settling point
According to Maslow, our need for ________ must be met before we are preoccupied with satisfying our need for ________.
  • adequate clothing; self-esteem
  • settling point
  • Majority; Minority
  • instinct
Over the past 50 years, American women have expressed ________ satisfaction with their physical appearance and have experienced a(n) ________ incidence of serious eating disorders.
  • ...
  • settling point
  • drive reduction
  • Majority; Minority
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