Monday, February 5, 2018

February 5, 2018

Monday February 5, 2018

Circle: Something you are embarrassed about  having done to fit in?

AP Exam Sign Up Sheet


Hand out Study Guide/Midterm Exam

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?  Is poverty a choice?  Why would anyone want to be poor? Cape Elizabeth versus Rumford? Generational poverty

Activity: T or F


Activity: Sensation-Seeking Scale


Activity: Self Actualization Survey

Activity: Desirability of Control Scale

Research: How to motivate yourself

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

1 comment:

  1. Stress can also come from within the family, parents and siblings. Jennifer Rothman NYC Anyone of the members having an issue should call all the family to the table to talk about the problem and solve it. Become aware of any stress sign, rather that roaming around with a heavy heart, or keeping things inside you and letting it get worse. Anything that puts high demands, focus on process first instead of outcome.

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