Psychology

Assignment: MCQs

Chapter: Motivation
1. is a process that stimulates directs and energizes the behavior of organisms towards
certain goals.
a) Learning
b) Motivation
c) Sensation
d) Thinking
2. According to Freud’s motivation theory there are 2 types of instincts:
a) Eros and Thanatos
b) Death instinct & Life instincts
c) Both a & b
d) Cleanliness and Gregariousness
3. According to Freud , For a hungry person will be impetus
a) Hunger
b) Search for food
c) Reducing hunger
d) Eating
4. Following is the correct sequence of motivational cycle
a) Driving state , instrumental behavior, goal , relief
b) Driving state, goal, relief, instrumental behavior
c) Goal , instrumental behavior, driving state , relief
d) None of these
5. .Motivation can be explained in terms of external stimuli in
a) Pull theory/incentive theory
b) Push theory/instinct theory
c) Pull theory / instinct theory
d) Push theory/incentive theory
6. Which type of motivation is associated with activities that are rewarding or satisfying in
themselves
State motivation
a) Intrinsic motivation
b) Extrinsic motivation
c) Trait motivation

7. The self determination theory falls into which school of thought

a) Cognitive
b) Humanistic
c) behavioral
d) social cognitive
8. Social cognitive perspectives often hold which of the following to be important aspects of
motivation
a) Positive self regard and hierarchy of needs
b) Operant and classical conditioning
c) Schemas and prototypes
d) Expectancy and value
9. Meeting all of maslow’s needs should result in which one of the following
a) Locus on control
b) self actualization
c) unconditional positive regard
d) Self efficacy
10. Which of the following contains an aspect that would not fall into the category of basic
needs
a) security and warmth
b) food and water
c) Bowel and bladder tension
d) Intimate relationships and safety
11. Regions of hypothalamus that are involved in hunger drive are
a) 4
b) 3
c) 2
d) 6
12. Animal would stop eating if is destroyed
a) Lateral hypothalamus
b) Ventromedial area
c) Parathyroid gland
d) Adrenal gland
13. Animals develop increased appetites if is destroyed
a) Lateral hypothalamus
b) Ventromedial area
c) Cerebral cortex
d) Occipital lobe
14. Sex drive is due to:
a) Increase of hormones in blood
b) Decrease of hormones in blood
c) External stimuli in some cases
d) Both a&c
15. Stomach contractions associated with hunger were experimented by :
a) Cannon
b) Jean Mayor
c) Freud
d) Clark Hull
16. Fatigue is caused due to:
a) Increased progesterone in blood
b) Increased lactic acid in blood
c) Increased glucose in blood
d) Increased estrogen in blood
17. Harry F.Harlow presented:
a) Glucostatic theory
b) Affectionate responses of organisms
c) Reinforcement theories
d) Humanistic theory
18. Drive Reduction Theory relies on the idea that humans desire to exist in a state of
a) Homeostasis
b) Tension
c) Peace
d) Change
19. Hunger controls are located within the brain's:
a) Hypothalamus
b) Cerbral cortex
c) Temporal lobe
d) Medulla
20. If the lateral hypothalamus is destroyed, a rat will
a) drink more water than biologically needed.
b) Refuse to drink until forced to do so.
c) Eat until it becomes obese.
d) Refuse to eat until force fed.
21. If the ventromedial hypothalamus is destroyed, a rat will
a) Eat until it becomes obese.
b) Refuse to eat until forced to do so.
c) Drink excessively.
d) Refuse to drink until forced to do so
22. Motives that do not have any psychological basis are:
a) Stimulus motives
b) Intrinsic motives
c) Extrinsic motives
d) All of these
23. Power motive can be expressed by all except:
a) Gaining control over one’s body
b) Identifying with powerful people
c) Seeking to have personal influence over others
d) Limiting oneself to a particular task
24. Dynamic psychology is the psychology of:
a) Motivation and Emotion
b) Perception and Attention
c) Learning and Memory
d) Personality and Intelligence
25. Both the terms “emotion” and “motivation” came from the same Latin root:
a) Movement
b) Move
c) Moment
d) “Movere”
26. Who assumed that human motives are arranged in a hierarchy of potency?
a) Neal Miller (1959)
b) Janis& Mann (1977)
c) Jerome Singer (1962)
d) Maslow (1970)
27. Survival needs activate the organism to:
a) Provide for physiological deficits
b) Seek pleasure
c) Avoid pain
d) Gain status and recognition
28. Motives can be:
a) Inferred from behaviour
b) Observed directly
c) Used to explain behaviour
d) Used to predict behaviour
29. A motivated behaviour is directed towards:
a) Situation
b) Object
c) Goal
d) Group
30. Needs, drives or motives:
a) Can be directly observed
b) Cannot be directly observed
c) Are always dormant
d) Are same
31. Gregariousness is a/an:
a) Social motive
b) Biological motive
c) Psychological motive
d) Personal motive
32. Individual’s life goal is:
a) Social Motive
b) Biological Motive
c) Personal Motive
d) An Instinct
33. When the motive has a biological or physiological basis, it is called a/an:
a) Drive
b) Incentive
c) Imprinting
d) Libido
34. Motives are never observed directly; but they are inferred from:
a) Stimulus
b) Conflict
c) Tension
d) Behaviour
35. The first stage of motivational cycle is:
a) Drive state
b) Instrumental behaviour
c) Goal
d) Frustration
36. In studying motivation, we attempt to answer:
a) The broadest “why” question of behaviour
b) The innate releasing mechanism
c) Fixed-action pattern
d) Displacement behavior
37. Prolactin, a hormone from the anterior pituitary gland plays an important role in
motivating:
a) Maternal behaviour
b) Imprinting
c) Instinct
d) Consummatory behavior
38. Curiosity comes under:
a) Social Motives
b) Personal motives
c) Non-homeostatic motives
 d) Both (b) and (c)
39. Which one of the following is not a psy•chological motive?
a) Need for achievement
b) Need for affection
c) Need for belonging
d) Need for Oxygen
40. A motive that is primarily learned rather than basing on biological needs is known as:
a) Physical Motive
b) Psychological Motive
c) Neurophysiological Motive
d) Psychological Motive
41. Lateral hypothalamus (LH) is otherwise known as:
a) Stimulating centre
b) Circulatory Centre
c) Feeding Centre
d) Water centre

1. motivation 9. self- 17. affectionate 25. “movere” 33. drive

actualization responses of
organisms
2. both a &b 10. intimate 18. homeostasis 26. Maslow 34. behavior
relationships and (1970)
safety
3. search for food 11. 2 19. 27. provide for 35. drive state
hypothalamus psychological
deficits
4. driving state 12.lateral 20. refuse to eat 28. inferred from 36. the broadest
,instrumental hypothalamus until force fed behavior ‘why’ question
behavior, goal, of behavior
relief
5. pull 13. ventromedial 21. eat until it 29. goal 37. maternal
theory/incentive area becomes obese behavior
theory 38. both b &c
6.intrinsic 14. both a & c 22. all of these 30. cannot be 39. need for
motivation directly observed oxygen
7. humanistic 15. Cannon 23. limiting 31. social motive 40. psychological
oneself to a
particular task
8. expectancy & 16. increased 24. motivation & 32. personal 41. feeding
value lactic acid in emotion motive center
blood