Chapter 10 questions

Chapter 10 Assignment

Instructions: By now you have read Chapter 10: Emotion and Motivation. Your job for this assignment is to answer the following personal adjustment/critical thinking questions that pertain to topics in chapter 10. Each answer needs to be a minimum of one paragraph (5 sentences) to received full credit.

Questions:

  1. Can you think of recent examples of how Maslows hierarchy of needs might have affected your behavior in some way?
  2. Critical Thinking:As indicated in this section, Caucasian women from industrialized, Western cultures tend to be at the highest risk for eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia nervosa. Why might this be?
  3. Critical Thinking:Imagine you find a venomous snake crawling up your leg just after taking a drug that prevented sympathetic nervous system activation. What would the James-Lange theory predict about your experience?