Circle: How do you think we as a school could motivate more students to do well in school? Is it possible?
Big Picture- Looking at the diversity of needs that underlie our thoughts, behaviors, and the choices we make.
Learning Targets: You should be able to answer the following questions by the end of the unit.
From what perspectives do psychologists view motivated behavior?
What physiological factors produce hunger?
What psychological and cultural factors influence hunger?
How do anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder demonstrate the influence of psychological forces on physiologically motivated behaviors?
What stages mark the human sexual response cycle?
How do internal and external stimuli influence sexual behavior?
What has research taught us about sexual orientation?
What is the role of organizational psychologists?
What are the components of an emotion?
How do we communicate nonverbally? Are nonverbal expressions of emotion universally understood?
What is stress, and what types of events provoke stress responses?
What factors affect our ability to cope with stress?Motivation and Emotion Slides
Motivation: A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior.
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 also a list that goes against the principal.
Turn and Talk
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: Sensation-Seeking Scale
Activity: Self Actualization Survey
Activity: Desirability of Control Scale
Research: How to motivate yourself
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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