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AP Psychology Unit 8 - Motivation, Emotion, and Stress Questions & Complete Answers motivation - a need or desire that energizes and directs behavior instincts - a complex, innate behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout the species -Ex. Bears hibernate in the winter -only evolutionary...

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AP Psychology Unit 8 - Motivation,
Emotion, and Stress Questions &
Complete Answers 2024 - 2025
motivation - ✔✔a need or desire that energizes and directs behavior


instincts - ✔✔a complex, innate behavior that is rigidly patterned
throughout the species
-Ex. Bears hibernate in the winter
-only evolutionary psychologists support this theory of motivation


drive-reduction theory - ✔✔a psychological need creates a psychological
drive that motivates an organism to satisfy the need


homeostasis - ✔✔the goal of the drive-reduction theory is what?


incentives - ✔✔While needs push, ________ pull.
-A positive or negative stimulus that motivates behavior


hypothalamus
needs
drives
pituitary - ✔✔The ____________ plays the most powerful role re:
motivation
-Monitors the physiological ________
-Creates the psychological __________.
-Signals to the ____________________ gland to include the endocrine
system

, hypothalamus - ✔✔Internal cues are triggered by the
__________________.


environment - ✔✔Preference for sweet and salty foods is universal and
genetic; however, most food preferences are learned via the
________________.


set point theory - ✔✔The point at which an individual's weight is set


adiposat - ✔✔region of the brain that monitors body fat


below set point - ✔✔high appetite, low metabolism, low energy expenditure


above set point - ✔✔low appetite, high metabolism, high energy expenditure


insulin - ✔✔secreted by pancreas; controls glucose


ghrelin - ✔✔secreted by empty stomach; sends hungry message to
hypothalamus


orexin - ✔✔secreted by the hypothalamus; increases appetite


PYY - ✔✔secreted by digestive tract; shuts off appetite


leptin - ✔✔secreted by fat cells; shuts off appetite


30 - ✔✔An obese BMI is what?___+


34 - ✔✔What percent of American adults are obese?


64 - ✔✔What percent of obese in America have a BMI of 25+?

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