SparkNotes: Motivation: Sample Quiz Questions

1. If someone has intrinsic motivation to go for a jog every evening, she is most likely to jog for which reason?

(A) She likes the way she feels when she jogs

(B) She wants to please her mother by losing some weight

(C) She wants other people to admire her for jogging

(D) All of the above

2. What influences set points for body weight?

(A) Basal metabolic rate

(B) Food intake

(C) Energy output

(D) All of the above

3. Which of the following is likely to be true?

(A) When the level of glucose in the blood falls, people always feel hungry

(B) When the level of glucose in the blood is low, whether or not people feel hungry may depend on environmental factors

(C) Blood glucose level is not related to hunger

(D) When people eat, their blood glucose level falls

4. According to Masters and Johnson, men go through a refractory period in which phase?

(A) Plateau

(B) Resolution

(C) Excitement

(D) Orgasm

5. Which statement best describes the relationship between testosterone level and sex?

(A) Sexual activity decreases testosterone

(B) Testosterone increases sex drive

(C) Testosterone increases sex drive and sexual activity increases testosterone

(D) Testosterone increases sex drive and sexual activity decreases testosterone

6. There are many gender differences in sexual behavior. Critics of evolutionary explanations are likely to attribute these differences to which of the following?

(A) Differences in parental investment

(B) Differences in genetic makeup

(C) Differences in socialization

(D) None of the above

7. A person with an injury in the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus might exhibit what kind of behavior?

(A) Eating very small meals

(B) Eating only salty foods

(C) Loss of interest in eating

(D) Excessive eating and weight gain

8. In order for a goal to be effective at increasing motivation, what should it be?

(A) Very difficult to reach

(B) Specific

(C) Framed in terms of what should be avoided

(D) Easily attained

9. A disadvantage of incentives is that they may do which of the following?

(A) Increase motivation in general

(B) Decrease intrinsic motivation

(C) Decrease extrinsic motivation

(D) Decrease opportunities for achievement

10. What are sexual scripts?

(A) Stories on sexual themes that people are asked to write when tested with the TAT

(B) Implicit rules about appropriate sexual behavior

(C) Theories that evolutionary theorists use to explain sexual behavior

(D) Theories that psychologists use to explain the origins of sexual orientation