Wednesday January 29, 2020
Circle: Who is the most motivated person you know? What motivates them?
Unit Test: Cognition and Language
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.
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.
Reading Assignments:
1/31: 327-337
2/4: 337-362
2/6: 366-376
2/10 377-384
2/12: 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
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