Jordan plays his two new video games everyday
After a month of continually playing these games, Jordan starts finding these games boring and wants some new ones. Jordan's behavior is consistent with which theory of motivation?
a. arousal theory
b. Cannon-Bard theory
c. drive reduction theory
d. Maslow's hierarchy of needs
A
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a. Impulsive, out of control young women use eating disorders as a means of rebelling. b. Overly compliant young women use dieting as a means to wrest some control from their parents. c. A fear of sexual dysfunction motivates some young adolescents to try to stop the maturation process cold in its tracks. d. The scapegoating of a young adolescent female leaves her with no other means to deal with the stress of living in a dysfunctional family.
The sexual abuse of a very young child is so emotionally repulsive to most people that they immediately recognize it as shamefully immoral. This best illustrates that moral judgments may reflect
A. habituation. B. insecure attachments. C. gut-level intuitions. D. concrete operational thought.