| Study Questions
Number 24 Chapter 12. Motivation. (426-447) |
Student
Name _____________________ Date due: 11-8-04 Introduction to Psychology 101 Hal S. Bertilson, Ph.D. |
| 1. | What should critical thinkers be wary of regarding claims that a gene "determines" anything? (430) |
| 2. | What five (5) leading environmental culprits cause the world-wide weight-gain epidemic? (431) |
| 3. | What happened after television was introduced in the Pacific Island of Fiji in 1995? In three years how did the percentages change? (434) |
| 4. | What is need for affiliation? (435) |
| 5. | What three elements does Robert Sternberg (triangular theory of love) believe are ingredients of ideal love? Define each. According to this theory romantic love includes which of these elements? Empty love includes which of these components? Infatuation includes which of these elements? |
| 6. | According the attachment theory of love, what three attachment styles are there? Name and define each. (437) |
| 7. | What role does the hormone testosterone play in the sexual response of females? Males? (440-441) |
| 8. | In what ways do people's physiological sexual responses not always correlate with their subjective experience of desire and arousal? (442) |
| 9. | What six factors underlie the reasons people give for having sex? (443) |
| 10. | What are the main reasons men give for having had unwanted intercourse? What are the main reasons women give for having had unwanted intercourse? (444) |
| 11. | In a nationally represented sample, what percentage of women said that a man had forced them to do something sexually that they did not want to do? What percentage of men said they had ever forced a woman into a sexual act? How do you account for that difference? (444) |
| 12. | What motivates men to rape? (445) |
| 13. | Define sexual script. (447) |