PSY 333 Final Week Assessment Template
Name: _______________________________ (2.5 points)
ID Number: _________ (2.5 points)
Short Answer Question
What do you think is the most important reason for studying motivation? Please give reasons to support your view. Please be sure to write at least three sentences. (15 points)
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The main reason that drives individuals to study motivation is that the study helps us understand how we can actively engage with the available resources to guarantee success. Through such studies, we can get an understanding of the sources of motivations, the different types of motivation, why motivation changes, and approaches those individuals can use to benefit from motivation at times of operational challenges. Studying motivation also gives valuable human nature insights and explains why humans strive for power and achievement, why they set goals, and why they experience anger, compassion, and fear.
True / False
Please fill in the blank (to the left of each question below) to show whether the following are true or false. Where answers are false, please correct them in the space provided below each question with at least one complete sentence completely in your own words. This will allow you to get full points for the false questions. Each answer is worth ten points. False answers are each worth ten points also;, five of these ten points will come from the correction. (80 points)
_______ 1. A person’s parasympathetic nervous system will help them to calm down after a stressful event.
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True parasympathetic nervous system helps the body to rest after engaging in a stressful situation. After the case, the nervous system undergoes sympathetic division, which in turn decreases the heart rate, respiration and increases the rate of digestion. It also initiates fight-or-flight response, feed-and-breed responses, and rest-and-digest responses.
_______ 2. Attribution is what happens when we answer the question ‘why’ about ourselves and others’ behaviors.
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True, in most cases, individuals use fundamental attribution error to blame other people for things that they did not have control over and failed. It is from such an environment that the term blaming the victim emerges; social psychologists mostly use it in describing the phenomenon that involves individuals blaming the innocent other for their misfortunes.
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_______ 3. There is no value in looking at how a person’s body influences their behavior since all psychologists believe that our behavior comes only from our mental processes. We make choices, and our behaviors follow.
False, current psychologists suggest that there is no one “right” or fixed approach to studying behave and individuals. In the development of personality, physical appearance is a significant factor. The reason behind it is that it is by what people see physically that they form opinions. In addition to that, they respond according to the appearance, choices, and behavior that can be studied by different perspectives based on the evolvement and thoughts that the psychological field has realized.
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_______ 4. Haider’s Naïve Psychology states that we are inexperienced about where our behaviors and the behaviors of others come from.
False. Haider’s Naïve Psychology states that ordinary people are presumably experienced about other behaviors and behaviors of them come from. Meaning the theory is not certain about the experience of human beings. It also strains that difficulty and luck are included in situational attributes.
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_______ 5. Every kind of conformity that we act out is negative. There is no positive conformity.
________False, in life, we face both positive and negative conformity. Choice of conformity is made on individuals’ basis, that is after analyzing individual biological needs, engaging in sensitive thinking and making personal decision on whether to make positive or negative approach. _____________________________________________________________________________________
_______ 6. The emotions as motivator theories generally believe that there is no relationship between our emotions and what takes place in our bodies and our thought lives. Emotions are always the first and last things to motivate us.
______False, our emotions have a close relationship with our inner thoughts. It is the mind and internal brain reaction that determines the way individuals will react to certain circumstances. In real life situation, internal feeling will make individuals react differently to judgments made in the court of justice, there will always be ones who will support the judgment and others will be against the judgment based on the fact that there emotions are differently shaped from the inside. ________________________________________________________________________________________
_______ 7. Mahmoud is watching a horror movie as part of a psychological study. A psychologist is using the Circumplex Model of effect to analyze his emotions. Most likely, the psychologist would find that most of Mahmoud’s emotions experienced throughout the movie would be mapped onto the top-right quarter of this circumplex.
True, the main aim of watching a horror movie in psychology is the urge to pay attention. The patient, Mahmoud, needs to experience jump scares in emotional process regions. That is also the region where decisions and evaluation making takes place.
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_______ 8. Zajonc believed that our emotions come before anything else in motivating us, including our thoughts.
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_True, Zajonc suggests that cognition is independent from emotions. He proceeded to claim that one of the two must come before the other, with emotions coming before anything else in the motivating process. From my personal point of view, I disagree with Zajonc because emotion and cognition study is something that has been integrated as the phemonenon themselves are also integrated. Motivation and emotions normally emerge from combination of cognitive and affective processes, and both of them are in most cases studied on basis of cognitive paradigms. ___________________________________________________________________________________
Deductions:
Not using Microsoft Word Times New Roman 10 Point Font: -5 points
Not typing name / ID correctly: -2.5 points each
Not using this template: -20 points.
Using this template in a disorganized and poorly formatted way: -10 points
Not writing three sentences in response to Short Answer Question: -5 points per sentence missed.
Plagiarized sentences: -5 points per sentence (short answer), -5 points per sentence (True / False)
After three plagiarized sentences, the plagiarism policy will apply.
Not correcting false answers with complete sentences: -5 points per missed sentences; no credit given to incomplete sentences.