These objectives are expanded from the Focus Questions found in the margins of your textbook. When you have mastered the material in this chapter, you will be able to:
10.1 Define and differentiate motivation and emotion.
10.2 Describe the key motivational concepts introduced by biological, cognitive, psychodynamic, and humanistic perspectives.
10.3 Describe the BAS/BIS systems.
10.4 Describe the physiological factors that help regulate hunger, general appetite, and weight, and describe how those factors contribute to obesity.
10.5 Describe how psychological, environmental, and cultural factors influence hunger and eating.
10.6 Describe biological and environmental factors in obesity and how their interactions contribute to obesity among the Pima.
10.7 Describe the role of genetics in obesity.
10.8 Describe the symptoms, health consequences, and causes of anorexia and bulimia.
10.9 Describe how sexual behaviors and attitudes have changed in recent decades.
10.10 Describe the stages of the sexual response cycle and how hormones influence sex characteristics and sexual behavior.
10.11 Describe how psychological, cultural, and environmental factors influence sexual behavior.
10.12 Describe the findings on the effects of viewing violent pornography.
10.13 Describe the three dimensions of sexual orientation, and discuss research on the determinants of sexual orientation.
10.14 Discuss evolutionary and psychological views of affiliation, and explain why humans are social creatures.
10.15 Compare and contrast sexual strategies theory and social structure theory in explaining mating preferences, and describe cross-cultural evidence.
10.16 Describe how the motives and task behaviors of high- versus low-need achievers differ.
10.17 Describe the achievement goal orientations and motivational climates in achievement goal therapy.
10.18 Describe how the need for achievement develops.
10.19 Differentiate among the three main types of motivational conflict.
10.20 Describe the ways in which negative and positive emotions are adaptive.
10.21 Describe the four major components of emotions and how they influence one another.
10.22 Describe which brain structures LeDoux believes allow simultaneous but different emotional responses to the same event.
10.23 Describe how positive and negative emotions involve different patterns of brain activation.
10.24 Describe how the assessment of emotion works in lie detection, and describe factors that affect validity.
10.25 Describe how fundamental emotional patterns are related to both facial expressions and cultural display rules.
10.26 Describe the relations among emotional arousal, task complexity, and task performance.
10.27 Compare and contrast theories and research pertaining to emotion, including the James-Lange somatic theory and the Cannon-Bard explanations for emotional perception and labeling.
10.28 Describe how appraisal and arousal interact to influence emotions according to Lazarus's theory and Schachter's two-factor theory of emotion, and describe the two key experiments inspired by their theories.
10.29 Describe the factors that predict or fail to predict happiness.
10.30 Summarize research-based guidelines for increasing happiness.