MCQs of Education- Motivation and Emotion

The manufacture of adrenalin and noradrenalin is controlled by.

Repression is a common mode of resolving.

The defence mechanisms are reactions to.

Dynamic psychology is the psychology of.

Both the terms “emotion”and “motivation” came from the same Latin root.

According to Lewin,tensions are emotional states which accompany.

In avoidance-avoidance conflict,the individual is compelled to choose between.

A releaser is a highly specific stimulus that “triggers”or initiates.

Who assumed that human motives are arranged in hierarchy of potency?

Corpus luteum and placenta of pregnant women secret the hormone.

According to Maslow ,the self-actualizing tendency is.

Need for achievement can be measured by.

The desire to be with one,s own kind is termed as.

The type of conflict in which the goal of the individual has both positive and negative valence of approximate equal intensity is known as.

A young woman who turns herself into a religious worker has a strong.

The author of the hierarchical theory of motivation is.

When progress towards a goal is blocked and underlying tension is unresolved we speak of.

Survival needs to activate the organism to.

Motives can be.

A motivated behaviour is directed towards.

Needs drives or motives.

Gregariousness is a/an.

Individual,s life goal is.

When the motive has a biological or physiological basis,it is called a/an.

Motives are never observed directly but they are inferred from.

The first stage of motivational cycle is.

In studying motivation,we attempt to answer.

The level of arousal is maintained by a structure in the brain stem called the.

Motivation can be understood as an interaction between.

A desire to achieve success and to meet some inner standard of excellence is a good definition of the.

The”need for success”expectancy for success and the”incentive value of success”and three motivational factors which determine the strength of.

The need to achieves is jointly determined by.

Social conformity can be described as a revers.

F.H Allport (1935) described social conformity as the.

As motivation is closely related to effort the emotion is related to.

Fritz Heider ,an Austrian psychologist has given a great deal of insight into.

A motive ethnologically means that.

Since motives activate the organism they are also known as the.

The second stage of the motivational cycle is called the.

Prolactin a hormone from the anterior pituitary gland plays an important role in motivating.

Behaviour of the mentally ill persons is greatly influenced by their.

Generally we infer needs and desires from.

Physiologists use the term homeostasis to describe the body,s tendency to maintain a balance or equilibrium among it,s.

The relative strength of the drives of hunger thirst and sex have been studied experimentally in the white rat by.

The technique by which the strength of need is measured in terms of readiness with which a task is learned under different conditions of motivation is known as.

The technique for the measurement of need by which the strength of a need is measured in terms of the magnitude of an obstacle or the number of times an obstacle of a given magnitude will be overcome in order to obtain a needed object is known as.

A tension within an organism which tends to organize the field of the organism with respect to certain incentives or goals and to incite activity directed towards their attainment is called.

An intraorganic activity or condition of tissue supplying stimulation for a particular type of behaviour is known as.

Maslow viewed that motivated behaviour is.

“A goal refers to some substance,objects or environmental condition capable of reducing or temporarily eliminating the complex of internal conditions which initiated action,”This definition of “goal”was given by.

Cannon called the concept of internal equilibrium and function as.

The expectations or goal that one sets to achieve in future keeping in view his past performance is called.

“The need for achievement”was first defined largely on the basis of clinical studies done by.

The achievement motivation theory of Mc Clelland is explained in terms of.

Intrinsic Motivational Theory was propounded by.

Psychoanalytic theory of motivation was developed by.

The goals which the person tries to escape are called.

A person,s need for feeling competent and self-determining in dealing with his environment is called.

When the motive is directed towards goals external to the person such as money or grade, it is called.

Steers and Porter (1975) in their text entitled “Motivation and work behaviour”identified.

The conditions which influence the arousal direction and maintenance of behaviour relevant in work settings are called.

Intrinsic motivation as currently conceived is championed by.

Most of the research on intrinsic motivation has concentrated on the interaction has concentrated on the interaction between.

An individual,s affective orientation towards particular outcomes is called the.

Dipboye (1977) distinguished between the strong and weak versions of.

Motives are.

Motives move a person from.

Literally motivation means the process of inducing.

Motivation is defined as a state of the organism in which bodily energy is mobilised and selectively directed towards parts of the.

“Mobilisation of bodily energy” is otherwise known as.

The selected part of environment refers to the end results of behaviour sequence which are known as.

Goal refers to.

When a motive is aroused and the organism is driven to a goal,a condition is produced within the organism called.

The tension increases when the goal is.

Those internal mechanisms of the body which by controlling numerous highly complicated physiological processes,keep it in a state of equilibrium are known as.

Homeostasis is the overall term for equilibrium preserving tendencies with an organism preserving tendencies with an organism by which.

Curiosity comes under.

Sex is a.

Maslow,s idea about the structure of needs is known as.

“Intrinsic motivation theory’was developed by.

A person who is motivated displays.

The process of maintaining the biochemical balance or equalibrium throughout human body is referred as.

Which one of the following is not a psychological motive?

‘The competition of two or more contradictory impulses usually accompanied by emotional tension is called a/an.

An object or thing which directs or stimulates behaviour.

A pituitary hormone associated with the secretion of milk is known as.

A motive that is primarily learned rather than basing on biological needs is known as.

During 1950s,psychologists began to be disenchanted with the drive reduction theory of motivation as an explanation of.

The hypothalamus plays an important role in the regulation of.

Lateral hypothalamus (LH)is otherwise known as.

Research evidences indicated that ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH).

Electrical stimulation of ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH) cells.

Injections of glucose (Which)raise blood sugar level).

Injections of insulin (which lower blood sugar level).

Studies indicated that the hypothalamus contains cells (glucoreceptors) sensitive to the rate of which.

An empty stomach produces the periodic contractions of muscles in the stomach wall which we identify as.

Obesity is though to stem from disturbances during the.

Dehydration of the osmoreceptors can be produced by depriving the organism of.

Water deficit in the body increases the concentration of.

Realistic anxiety is otherwise known as.

In “moral anxiety”ego,s dependence upon.

Neurotic anxiety is one in which there occurs emotional response to a threat to ego that the impulses may break through into.

Sometimes the superego gives threats to punish the ego.This causes an emotional response called.

Always we want to protect ego from the ensuring anxiety For doing this ego adopts adopts some strategies which are called.

Defense mechanisms help the person in protecting ego from open expression of Id impulses and opposing.

Defence mechanism operate at unconscious level They occur Without awareness of the individual Hence they are.

A child scolded by his father may hit his younger siblings This is an example of.

“A young women after fighting with her husband returned to her parent,s home only to allow her parents to “baby”her and fulfil her every wish like that of a child”This is an illustration of.

The last stage of psychosexual development is.

Sigmund Freud has regarded the first three stages of psychosexual development i.e the period of 5 or 6 years of life ,to be decisive for the formation of.

In the book”Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego”Freud has explained the formation of.

Freud had published a book “Totem and Tahoo”in 1913 By publishing this book he has shown his concern for.

Who viewed “A person is grown with sex,lives in sex and finally dies in sex”?

Who said that after birth,the child has a strong frustrating experience?

“Penis envy” is found in girls in.

Homosexuality is a derivative of.

The Oral Anal and Phallic stages of Psycho sexual Development are called.

The genital stage is generally characterized by object choices rather that by.

In Anal Stage of Psychosexual Development pleasure is derived from.

The “Super ego”is the equivalent of what is more commonly known as the.

The psychoanalysis performed in a controlled setting is known as.

A state of deep unconsciousness with non-responsiveness to stimulation is known as.

In 1895,Freud an Breuer published a book entitled.

Studies of Freud and Breuer reported successful treatment of hysterical symptoms by a method called.

The success of the cathartic method was regarded by Freud as evidence of the.

From the experiences in hypnotism and catharsis,Freud,s theory of.

Dreams represent demands or wishes stemming from the.

In a special book,Freud analyzed the psychology of error and found the source of errors in the conflict between.

The parts of the body that are capable of reacting to sexual stimuli are called.

The main erotogenic zone of our body is.

According to Freud the entire activity of men is bent upon procuring pleasure and avoiding pain.This activity is controlled by.

The urethral development stage is an introductory period to the.

The very term “Phallic “is derived from “Phallos”which means.

Urethral eroticism is mainly.

According to Freud,the negative Oedipus complex may lead to.

The idea of developmental stages was borrowed by Freud from.

The diversion of a part of the sexual energy into non-sexual activities is called.

The term “defence mechanism” was introduced by.

Moving away from the reality is called the mechanism of.

Syllabus of advance classes cannot be covered with ________ as it requires great time.