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| 2404186856 | The study of motivation concerns the physiological and psychological processes underlying the initiations of behaviours that direct organisms towards specific goals is known as a _______. | Motive. | 0 | |
| 2404190881 | A biological trigger that tells us we may be deprived of something and causes us to seek out what is needed is referred to as a ______. | Drive. | 1 | |
| 2404193263 | The body's physiological processes that allow it to maintain consistent internal states in response to the outer environment is called _______. | Homeostasis. | 2 | |
| 2404197718 | The process in which motivation is not only influenced by current needs, but also by the anticipation of future needs is ________. | Allostasis. | 3 | |
| 2404202590 | By electrically stimulating the lateral hypothalamus, it allows us to _____. | Eat. | 4 | |
| 2404204531 | Stimulating the ventromedial region allows us to ______. | Stop eating. | 5 | |
| 2404207435 | A sugar the serves as a primary energy source for the brain and the rest of the body is _______. | Glucose. | 6 | |
| 2404209705 | What is the term that describes the point in a meal where we are no longer motivated to eat? | Satiation. | 7 | |
| 2404215646 | Stress modulates _______, a hormone secreted in the stomach that stimulates stomach concentrations and appetite. | Grehlin. | 8 | |
| 2404219472 | The tendency to assume that the unit sale or portioning amount to consume is referred to as ______. | Unit Bias. | 9 | |
| 2404227900 | The longer a person sits socializing, the more likely he or she is to continue eating. This is referred to as _______. | Social facilitation. | 10 | |
| 2404230520 | Sometimes people self-consciously control their behaviour so that others will see them in a certain way. This is referred to as _______. | Impression Management. | 11 | |
| 2404232843 | People may be likely to eat more, even if already full, just to fit along. This is referred to as _________. | Modelling. | 12 | |
| 2404234914 | A disorder of positive energy balance, in which energy intake exceeds energy expenditure is called ________. | Obesity. | 13 | |
| 2404241796 | An eating disorder that involves self-starvation, intense fear of weight gain and dissatisfaction with one's body, and a denial of the serious consequences of severely low weight is called _______. | Anorexia Nervosa. | 14 | |
| 2404250843 | An eating disorder that is characterized by periods of food deprivation, binge eating, and purging is called ______. | Bulimia Nervosa. | 15 | |
| 2404257367 | What are some factors developed from eating disorders? | Stress, depression, guilt, perfectionism. | 16 | |
| 2404262329 | What is libido? | The motivation for sexual activity and pleasure. | 17 | |
| 2404265590 | The ______ cycle describes the phases of physiological change during sexual activity. | Sexual Response. | 18 | |
| 2404267467 | The four primary stages of the sexual response cycle are: | Excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution. | 19 | |
| 2404277366 | Men usually experience a single orgasm followed by a ________. | Refractory period. | 20 | |
| 2404278219 | The _________ is a time in which erection and orgasm are not physically possible. | Refractory period. | 21 | |
| 2404283864 | The hypothalamus stimulates the pituitary gland to release a hormone called __________. | Oxytocin. | 22 | |
| 2404354203 | The consistent preference for sexual relations with members of the opposite sex, same sex, or either sex is referred to as _________. | Sexual orientation. | 23 | |
| 2404361699 | The accepted attitudes and behaviours of males and females in a given society are referred to as _______. | Gender roles. | 24 | |
| 2404375158 | The set of rules and assumptions about the sexual behaviours of males and females is called ______. | Sexual scripts. | 25 | |
| 2404376715 | A hormone that is involved in the development of sex characteristics and the motivation of sexual behaviour is ________. | Testosterone. | 26 | |
| 2404382836 | What is the negative emotional feelings for having violated culturally accepted standards of appropriate sexual behaviour? | Sex guilt. | 27 | |
| 2404391951 | What is the motivation to maintain relationships that involve pleasant feelings such as warmth, affection, appreciation, and mutual concern for each person's well being? | Need to belong (Affiliation motivation). | 28 | |
| 2404396280 | A sense of _________ is most important for our well-being. | Permanence. | 29 | |
| 2404401906 | This is associated with a physical and emotional longing for the other person. What is it? | Passionate love. | 30 | |
| 2404405352 | A body region that is sensitive to internal bodily feelings such as having "butterflies to the stomach" is called the ______. | Insula. | 31 | |
| 2404413149 | This is related to tenderness, and to the affection we feel when our lives are intertwined with another person. What is it? | Companionate Love. | 32 | |
| 2404421129 | What is the term that is a very strong force in human behaviour, and refers to the drive to perform at high levels and to accomplish significant goals? | Achievement motivation. | 33 | |
| 2404424214 | What is an enjoyable and pleasant incentive that a person is drawn toward, such as praise, financial reward, or a feeling of satisfaction? | Approach Goal. | 34 | |
| 2404426786 | What is an attempt to avoid an unpleasant outcome such as shame, embarrassment, losing money, or feeling emotional pain? | Avoidance Goal. | 35 | |
| 2404430683 | The need to feel connected with others is _________. | Relatedness. | 36 | |
| 2404432867 | The need to feel in control of your own life is _______. | Autonomy. | 37 | |
| 2404433930 | The ability to perform a task at a skill level that is satisfying to the individual is ________. | Competence. | 38 | |
| 2404436511 | An individual's confidence that he or she can plan and execute a course of action in order to solve problem is referred to as ______. | Self-efficacy. | 39 | |
| 2404438119 | A theory that states that an individual's ability to achieve their goals and attain psychological well-being is influenced by the degree to which he or she is in control of the behaviours necessary to achieve those goals is called the _________. | Self-determination Theory. | 40 | |
| 2404441988 | Motivation geared toward gaining rewards or public recognition, or avoid embarrassment is called ______. | Extrinsic Motivation (Performance Motive). | 41 | |
| 2404448666 | The feeling of having little to no motivation to perform a behaviour is called ______. | Amotivational. | 42 | |
| 2404451027 | The process of being internally motivated to perform behaviours and overcoming challenges is known as ________. | Intrinsic Motivation (Mastery Motive). | 43 | |
| 2404455147 | The ________ happens when if you give someone a reward for an intrinsically motivated behaviour, the intrinsic motivation decreases, as does the frequency of the behaviour. | Over-justification Effect. | 44 | |
| 2404462969 | The ________ happens when a course of action is not obvious, and the different phrasing of the question or problem can produce different results. | Framing Effect. | 45 | |
| 2404468457 | Being a behaviour with the following three components: A subjective thought and/or experience with accompanying patterns of neural activity and physical arousal and an observable behavioural expression is known as _______. | Emotion. | 46 | |
| 2404475566 | The _______ is a group of nuclei in the medial portion of the temporal lobes in each hemisphere of the brain. | Amygdala. | 47 | |
| 2404478506 | The ________ specializes in preparing the body to physically respond to the emotional stimulus if necessary. | Autonomic Nervous System (ANS). | 48 | |
| 2404482871 | The Autonomic Nervous System consists of two systems. What are they? | Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous System. | 49 | |
| 2404485164 | The ________ helps recruit energy to prepare you for a response. | Sympathetic Nervous System. | 50 | |
| 2404486665 | The _________ helps preserve energy and calms you down if no response is necessary. | Parasympathetic Nervous System. | 51 | |
| 2404498757 | The ________ suggested that our physiological reactions to stimuli precede the emotional experience. | James-Lange Theory of Emotion. | 52 | |
| 2404505373 | The _________ is a theory that happens when the brain interprets a situation and generates subjective emotional feelings, and that these representations in the brain trigger responses in the body. | Cannon-Bard Theory of Emotion. | 53 | |
| 2404517552 | The _______ shows when our emotional expressions can influence our subjective emotional states. | Facial Feedback Hypothesis. | 54 | |
| 2404525537 | The ________ is a theory which holds that patterns of physical arousal and the cognitive labels we attach to them from the basis of our emotional experiences. | Two-factor Theory. | 55 | |
| 2404534715 | The __________ test was an open-ended test in which participants create stories to go along with a set of pictures. | Thematic Appreciation. | 56 | |
| 2404541309 | A real emotional response can be seen on our faces before a certain "mask is in place." What is it? | Microexpression. | 57 | |
| 2404555277 | _______ almost provides as much emotional information as facial expressions; it also activated a number of similar brain areas. | Body language. | 58 | |
| 2404557260 | ________ are variation across cultures in how common emotions are expressed. | Emotional dialects. | 59 | |
| 2404560010 | ________ refers to the unwritten expectations we have regarding when it is appropriate to show a certain emotion. | Display rules. | 60 | |
| 2404569284 | A characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving that is unique to each individual, and remains relatively consistent over time and situations is referred to as ________. | Personality. | 61 | |
| 2404573379 | What are the two approaches to personality measurement? | Idiographic and Nomothetic. | 62 | |
| 2404578876 | The _________ focuses on creating detailed descriptions of a specific person's unique personality characteristics. | Idiographic Approach. | 63 | |
| 2404588333 | The ________ examines personality in large groups of people, with the aim of making generalizations about personality structure. | Nomothetic Approach. | 64 | |
| 2404593252 | A ________ describes a person's habitual patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. | Personality Trait. | 65 | |
| 2404595231 | The ________ is the phenomenon in which it is easy to make people believe that you are measuring their personality than it is to actually measure it. | Barnum Effect. | 66 | |
| 2404597274 | A ________ is used to group items that people respond to similarly; for instance, the terms friendly, warm, and kind have similar meanings, and can be referred to as a cluster. | Factor Analysis. | 67 | |
| 2404603796 | The _______ is a trait-based theory of personality based on the finding that personality can be described using five major dimensions. | Five-Factor Model. | 68 | |
| 2404606024 | What are the five traits in the Five-Factor Model? | Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism. | 69 | |
| 2404610462 | People with _______ tend to be dreamers and creatives. They tend to be open with new things. | High openness. | 70 | |
| 2404612120 | People with _______ are defenders of the system. | Low openness. | 71 | |
| 2404613318 | People with _______ are the organizers; efficient, self-disciplined, and dependable. | High conscientiousness. | 72 | |
| 2404649276 | People with ________ are the easy-going ones, fun to hang out with, but not great as group project partners. | Low conscientiousness. | 73 | |
| 2404705558 | People with ________ are the socializers and sensation seekers. | High extraversion. | 74 | |
| 2404706835 | People with _______ are the quiet ones. | Low extraversion. | 75 | |
| 2404708472 | People with _______ are warm and friendly people that are easy to like, easy to be friends with, easy to have as part of your group. | High agreeableness. | 76 | |
| 2404711354 | People with _______ are the type who "put themselves first." | Low agreeableness. | 77 | |
| 2404713286 | People with ________ are difficult to deal with; their emotional volatility and general tendency to experience negative emotions makes them not much fun to be around. | High neuroticism. | 78 | |
| 2404716230 | People with _______ are the prototypical mentally healthy people. | Low neuroticism. | 79 | |
| 2404803668 | What is the six-factor theory that generally replicate the five factors of the FFM and adds one additional factor: Honesty-humility. | HEXACO Model of Personality. | 80 | |
| 2404807569 | People with ________ tend to be sincere, honest, faithful, and modest. | High Honesty-humility. | 81 | |
| 2404809085 | People with ________ tend to be more selfish, antisocial, and have violent tendencies. | Low Honesty-humility. | 82 | |
| 2404811093 | The ________ describes a person who is socially destructive, aggressive, dishonest, and likely to commit harm in general. | Dark Triad. | 83 | |
| 2404815499 | The Dark Triad refers to three traits. What are they? | Machiavellianism, Psychopathy, and Narcissism. | 84 | |
| 2404818238 | Which trait refers to a tendency to use people and be manipulative and deceitful? | Machiavellianism. | 85 | |
| 2404854994 | Which trait is a general tendency towards having shallow emotional responses? | Psychopathy. | 86 | |
| 2404856205 | Which trait reflects an egotistical preoccupation with self-image and an excessive focus on self-importance? | Narcissism. | 87 | |
| 2404859562 | People with _________ became aggressive when they felt physically threatened, but people with high ________ responded aggressively when their self-esteem was threatened. | High psychopathy, high narcissism. | 88 | |
| 2404862207 | People with ________ responded to neither type of threat; it seems they only become aggressive when it serves their goals. | High machiavellianism. | 89 | |
| 2404865418 | A highly problematic set of personality characteristics that involve three key tendencies is referred to as __________. | Right-wing Authoritarianism (RWA). | 90 | |
| 2404874100 | People with _________ are likely to be seething with prejudice. | High RWAs. | 91 | |
| 2404881036 | A temporary physical or psychological engagement that influences behaviour is referred to as a _______. | State. | 92 | |
| 2404883324 | Behaviour, internal (personal) factors, and external (situational) factors interact to determine one another, and that our personalities are based on interactions among these aspects is called ________. | Reciprocal Determinism. | 93 | |
| 2404886488 | What is the WEIRD Acronym? | Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic. | 94 | |
| 2404887781 | What is the combination of characteristics concerning social harmony, tradition, and an emphasis on one's social relationships? | Interpersonal Relatedness. | 95 | |
| 2404890032 | The characteristic ways of responding to questions; these response styles can be strongly influenced by cultural norms is referred to as a __________. | Response Style. | 96 | |
| 2404892092 | Identical twins are ________, whereas fraternal twins are ________. | Monozygotic, dizygotic. | 97 | |
| 2404896744 | The term that explains both physical illnesses and disorders of personality as resulting from imbalances in key fluids in the body is referred to as ________. | Humourism. | 98 | |
| 2404898595 | ________ is the term to describe the theory that personality characteristics could be assessed by carefully measuring the outer skull. | Phrenology. | 99 | |
| 2404900939 | The _________ is the idea when extraversion is determined by people's threshold for arousal. | Arousal Theory of Extraversion. | 100 | |
| 2404903388 | What plays a central role in controlling this arousal response? | Ascending Reticular Activating System (ARAS). | 101 | |
| 2404905513 | What is referred to as a "go" system, arousing the person to action in the pursuit of desired goals? | Behavioural Activation System (BAS). | 102 | |
| 2404909961 | What is more of a "danger" system motivating the person to action in order to avoid punishments or other negative outcomes? | Behavioural Inhibition System (BIS). | 103 | |
| 2404913504 | In the brain, extraversion has a larger _________, and generally less activation in the _________. | Medial Orbitofrontal Cortex, Amygdala. | 104 | |
| 2404928972 | In the brain, neuroticism has a smaller ________ , a smaller _______, and a larger _________. | Dorsomedial Prefrontal Cortex, Hippocampus, Mid-cingulate gyrus. | 105 | |
| 2404931224 | The _______ is involved in processing novelty, danger, and fear. | Amygdala. | 106 | |
| 2404931469 | The _________ is involved in controlling emotions. | Dorsomedial Prefrontal Cortex. | 107 | |
| 2404935766 | The _______ is involved in controlling obsessive, negative thinking. | Hippocampus. | 108 | |
| 2404937184 | The ________ is responsible for detecting errors and perceiving pain - whether physical or emotional. | Mid-cingulate Gyrus. | 109 | |
| 2404938205 | People with agreeableness show less brain volume in an area called the _________. | Left superior temporal sulcus. | 110 | |
| 2404939110 | The ________ is activated when one is interpreting another person's actions or intentions. | Temporal Sulcus. | 111 | |
| 2404954496 | In the brain, consciousness has a larger brain volume in the ________ in the _________. | Middle frontal gyrus, left prefrontal cortex. | 112 | |
| 2404965608 | In the brain, people with openness to experience have been shown to have greater activation in the ________. | Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex. | 113 | |
| 2404972688 | The _________ is involved in creativity and intelligence. | Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex. | 114 | |
| 2404975508 | The _______ is your current awareness, containing everything you are aware of right now. | Conscious mind. | 115 | |
| 2404976199 | The _______ is a much more vast and powerful, but inaccessible part of your consciousness, endorsement or will to influence and guide your behaviours. | Unconscious mind. | 116 | |
| 2404982621 | The ________ is the slips of the tongue allowing those to say what they were "really thinking." | Freudian Slip. | 117 | |
| 2404983757 | The _____ represents a collection of basic biological drives, including those directed toward sex and aggression. | Id. | 118 | |
| 2404984718 | Freud believed that Id was fuelled by an energy called ______. | Libido. | 119 | |
| 2404985067 | The ________ refers to motivating people to seek our experiences that bring pleasure, with little regard for the appropriateness or consequences of their realization. | Pleasure Principle. | 120 | |
| 2404986998 | The _______ is comprised of our values and moral standards. | Superego. | 121 | |
| 2404987840 | The ______ is the decision maker, frequently under tension, trying to reconcile the opposing urges of the id and superego. | Ego. | 122 | |
| 2404993308 | _______ are unconscious strategies the ego uses to reduce or avoid anxiety. | Defence Mechanisms. | 123 | |
| 2404994390 | Keeping distressing information out of conscious awareness by burying it in the unconscious is referred to as _______. | Repression. | 124 | |
| 2404995640 | Refusing to acknowledge unpleasant information, particularly about oneself is called _______. | Denial. | 125 | |
| 2405003512 | ________ is attempting to hide one's true motives by providing what seems like a reasonable explanation for unacceptable feelings or behaviours. | Rationalization. | 126 | |
| 2405009288 | Transforming an unacceptable impulse into a less unacceptable or neutral behaviour is referred to as ________. | Displacement. | 127 | |
| 2405009946 | Unconsciously assuming the characteristics of a more powerful person in order to reduce feelings of anxiety or negative feelings about the self is referred to as ______. | Identification. | 128 | |
| 2405011463 | ______ is keeping yourself unaware of undesirable qualities that you possess by instead attributing those qualities to other groups or people. | Projection. | 129 | |
| 2405014513 | ________ is altering an impulse that one finds personally unacceptable into its opposite. | Reaction Formation. | 130 | |
| 2405015633 | __________ is transforming unacceptable impulses into socially acceptable or even pro-social alternatives. | Sublimation. | 131 | |
| 2405018911 | When becoming preoccupied with obtaining the pleasure associated with a particular stage. This term is ________. | Fixation. | 132 | |
| 2405022570 | Which stage involves actions of the mouth, and the foundation of the ego, and occurs between 0-18 months? | The Oral Stage. | 133 | |
| 2405024638 | Which stage involves bowel elimination, control, and a sense of control and competence? | The Anal Stage. | 134 | |
| 2405025368 | Which stage involves the Oedipus complex, obsessions between power and sex if fixated? | The Phallic Stage. | 135 | |
| 2405030288 | Which stage involves external activities and interests and occurs between 6 yrs-puberty? | The Latency Stage. | 136 | |
| 2405030521 | Which stage involves sexual activities with others, and occurs between puberty-adulthood? | The Genital Stage. | 137 | |
| 2405031863 | ________ are personality tests in which ambiguous images are presented to an individual to elicit responses that reflect unconscious desires or conflicts. | Projective Tests. | 138 | |
| 2405033112 | The ________ asks people to describe what they see on the inkblot, and psychologists interpret this description using a standardized scoring and interpretation method. | Rorschach Inkblot Test. | 139 | |
| 2405039215 | The _______ asks respondents to tell stories about ambiguous pictures involving various interpersonal situations. | Thematic Appreciation Test (TAT). | 140 | |
| 2405047037 | ________ focuses on the role of unconscious archetypes in personality development. | Analytical psychology. | 141 | |
| 2405047650 | _________ is a vast repository of experiences and patterns that were absorbed during the entire experiential unfolding of the person's life. | Personal Unconscious. | 142 | |
| 2405049043 | The _______ is a separate, non-personal realm of the unconscious that holds the the collective memories and mythologies of humankind, stretching deep into our ancestral past. | Collective unconscious. | 143 | |
| 2405051001 | _______ are images and symbols that reflect common "truths" held across cultures, such as universal life experiences or types of people. | Archetypes. | 144 | |
| 2405051999 | The ________ is the struggle many people have with feelings of inferiority, which stem from experiences of helplessness and powerlessness during childhood. | Inferiority Complex. | 145 | |
| 2405054203 | The ________ happens when people are basically good, and given the right environment their personality will develop full and normally. | Person-centered Perspective. | 146 | |
| 2405055675 | The drive to grow and fulfill one's potential is known as _________. | Self-actualization. | 147 |
