Motivation looks like an easy course until the first exam, because everyone arrives already holding folk explanations for why people eat, take risks, quit or persist. Human Motivation, 6th Edition by Robert E. Franken spends the whole book dismantling those explanations and rebuilding each behavior out of three interacting components — biological, learned and cognitive. Students lose marks when they answer from intuition instead of from that framework, or when they can name a theory but cannot say which component it belongs to. The questions in this course are written precisely on that seam.
Why this test bank helps
Recognizing the correct label for a phenomenon is the smaller half of the work; explaining which component is doing the causal work is the half that earns credit. Every item here carries a written rationale that names the mechanism — why arousal explains a performance curve, why an external reward can weaken an already-intrinsic interest, why an attribution changes what someone does after a failure. Reading those explanations trains you to hear a scenario and immediately ask which of Franken’s three components the question is really testing.
What’s inside
- Questions organized to follow the book chapter by chapter, so each week of reading maps onto a defined block of practice.
- Mixed formats — multiple choice, true/false, matching and short-answer items on theories and studies.
- A written rationale under every question, so a wrong attempt tells you which concept you misread.
- Heavy weighting on the applied chapters — drug use, aggression, stress and self-regulation — that lectures often compress.
- One organized PDF, available to download the moment checkout completes.
Topics covered
- The three-component model — separating biological, learned and cognitive contributions to a single motivated act.
- Arousal, attention and performance — the inverted-U relationship, sensation seeking and optimal stimulation.
- Hunger, eating and body weight — set-point ideas, restraint, palatability and the environmental cues that override satiety.
- Emotions — fear and anxiety, happiness and subjective well-being, and how emotion feeds back into motivated action.
- Stress and coping — appraisal, the stress response, control beliefs and problem- versus emotion-focused coping.
- Drug use and addiction — reward pathways, tolerance, craving and the learned cues that sustain use.
- Aggression — frustration, arousal transfer, modeling and situational triggers.
- Goals, self-regulation and achievement — intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, self-efficacy, competence and goal setting.
Who it’s for
Undergraduates in a psychology of motivation, motivation and emotion, or human motivation course working from this edition — psychology majors meeting the theories for the first time, and students in kinesiology, education, nursing and business who take the course as an elective and need the theory to stick.
How to use it (the right way)
Read the chapter and work through the book’s own summaries first; practice questions diagnose understanding, they do not create it. Then attempt a block closed-book, flag every item you were unsure about even when the answer was right, and read the rationale for all of them. This is a study aid. Use it in line with your institution’s academic-integrity policy — for preparation and self-testing, never as a substitute for the coursework or as material taken into a graded assessment.
Sample question (shows the format — your download contains the full set)
Q. Children who already enjoyed drawing were paid for each picture they produced. Weeks after the payments stopped, they drew far less often during free time than children who were never paid. This result is best explained by:
- A. Habituation to the drawing materials
- B. The overjustification effect
- C. Learned helplessness
- D. An increase in arousal beyond the optimal level
Answer: B. When a salient external reward is added to an activity a person already finds interesting, the reason for acting is reattributed to the reward; remove it and the original intrinsic reason has been undermined. A describes a declining response to a repeated stimulus, not a shift in perceived cause. C requires prior experience of uncontrollable outcomes, which nothing here supplies. D would predict disrupted performance while arousal was high, not a lasting drop in voluntary choice afterward.
Edition & format
- Matches: Human Motivation, 6th Edition, by Robert E. Franken (ISBN 9780495090816).
- Format: Digital PDF, delivered instantly after checkout.
- Access: Lifetime — re-download from your account whenever you need it.
Chapter order and question numbering change between editions. Please confirm the edition and ISBN above match the book your course assigned before you buy.
Frequently asked questions
Is this the current edition? This set is prepared against the 6th Edition specifically. If your syllabus names a different edition, choose that listing instead, because chapter coverage shifts between editions.
How do I receive it? The download appears on your order confirmation page and in your account as soon as checkout completes. Nothing is shipped and there is no waiting period.
Do all the questions include rationales? Yes. Every item carries a written explanation of the reasoning behind the answer, which is the part that turns checking into studying.
Is using a test bank allowed? As a study aid it works like any other practice resource. Follow your institution’s academic-integrity policy, and never take the material into a graded assessment.
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