January 31, 2018

Wednesday January 31, 2018

Circle: Who is the most motivated person you know?

AP Exam Sign Up Sheet

Hand out Study Guide/Midterm Exam
Introduce Motivation- Where does it come from?  Can I get some...

Big Picture- Looking at the diversity of needs that underlie our thoughts, behaviors, and the choices we make.

Discussion: What motivates people to action? Pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain generally promotes our survival and explains much of what we do.  However sometimes the principal is counterproductive.  In your group generate a list of things we do that confirm the seek pleasure and avoid pain principal and a list that but also a list that goes against the principal.  

Can you explain the motivation behind these two eating disorders?
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Where does the behaviorist, evolutionary, cognitive, social cultural, psychoanalytic, biological and humanistic perspective fit into the conversation around motivation?

Activity: T or F

Activity: Go over Evolutionary Psychology Sheet

Activity: Sensation-Seeking Scale

Reading Assignments:

1/31: 327-337

2/6: 337-362

2/8: 366-376

2/12 377-384

2/14: 384-406 and Note Cards Due

2/14: Test

Vocabulary Words

• Abraham Maslow
• Cannon-Bard Theory
• Drive-Reduction theory
• Emotion
• General adaptation syndrome
• Hierarchy of needs
• Homeostasis
• Incentive
• Instinct
• James-Lange theory
• Motivation
• Stress