The Fact That We Sometimes Eat When We Are Not

question 110

Multiple Choice

The fact that we sometimes eat when we are not hungry in the biological sense of requiring more energy is a problem for the ____ theory of motivation.

• A) drive reduction
• B) arousal
• C) incentive
• D) classical

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