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Question 131

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Psychologists have used four perspectives in their efforts to explain motivation.These include an emphasis on instincts,optimum arousal,a hierarchy of motives,and

A) drive reduction.
B) homeostasis.
C) sensation-seeking.
D) affiliation.

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Question 132

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Carissa wants to gain control over her social media habits because her grades have recently dropped.Which of the following suggestions is NOT a reasonable,sustainable way of reducing her social media usage?

A) She should access her social media accounts only on weekends and holidays.
B) When studying,she should check her phone only once per hour.
C) She should keep a log of her time and decide if it reflects her grade priorities.
D) She should develop a time-controlled social media diet that she knows she can keep.

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Question 133

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Nikita comes from Nicaragua,a country with a relatively low average income.Francoise lives in Switzerland,where the standard of living is fairly high.Nikita's subjective well-being is especially likely to be influenced by satisfaction with her ________.Francoise's subjective well-being is especially likely to be influenced by satisfaction with her ________.

People from different cultures are most likely to differ with respect to:

According to the Cannon-Bard theory,bodily arousal is related to the subjective awareness of emotion in the same way as the ________ is related to the ________.

When an organism's weight falls below its set point,the organism is likely to experience a(n) ________ in hunger and a(n) ________ in its basal metabolic rate.

When researchers monitored the professional accomplishments of more than 1500 highly intelligent individuals,they found that the most successful were more ambitious,energetic,and persistent.This best illustrates the importance of:

According to the Cannon-Bard theory,the body's arousal is related to the sympathetic nervous system in the same way that subjective awareness of emotion is related to the:

Between 1980 and 2013,the proportion of overweight adults increased from 29 to _____ percent among the world's men,and from 30 to _____ percent among women.

Eight-year-old Dejuan was teasing and hitting his sister because her friends would not allow him to play with them.His mother punished him by sending him to his room for 20 minutes.This punishment is likely to cause Dejuan to experience:

Home-life satisfaction is more strongly predictive of subjective well-being in wealthy nations than in poor ones.This fact would be most clearly anticipated by:

Increased left frontal lobe activity is most characteristic of people with:

A newspaper advice columnist suggests that thinking can be voluntarily controlled and changed but that emotions are gut-level,biological reactions that can't be voluntarily controlled or modified.Use your knowledge of emotion research and theory to either support or refute the columnist's claim.

We experience hunger when the level of:

In the United States,the rate of obesity among adults has ________ over the last 40 years,and the rate of obesity among children and teens has ________.

The arousal theory of motivation would be most useful for understanding the aversive effects of:

Twelve weeks after severely obese people had weight-loss surgery and lost significant weight,one experiment found that they had:

A dieter whose weight falls below his or her set point is likely to experience a(n) :

In the United States,excessive Internet socializing and gaming have been associated with:

The arousal theory of motivation would be most useful for explaining an infant's urge to: