AP Psychology 4.6.B: Eating and Motivation
Explore AP Psychology 4.6.B questions on how physiological needs, external food cues, dopamine, reward centers, and observation influence eating behavior.
- Syllabus
- Effective Fall 2025
- Course
- AP Psychology
Exam points
- explain how physiological needs create hunger drives that influence eating through drive-reduction processes
- apply external cues, dopamine and reward centers, or observational learning to eating behavior
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Part A
Explain how each of the following plays a role in eating behavior.
- Drive-reduction theory
- External cues
- Dopamine and the reward center
External cues
External cues:
Responses should explain how the presence of food or a stimulus associated with food, as experienced
through specific sensory input, will affect eating behavior.
- Score: descriptions of food-related events as specific stimuli.
- Do NOT score references to thoughts or internal processes without a specific external sensory
experience.
- Do NOT score references to circadian rhythm or passage of time without description of external
sensory experience.
Note: There must be a specific short-term physical stimulus affecting eating behavior.
Point 3
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