Wednesday, April 7, 2021

Thursday April 1, 2021


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

Turn and Talk


The Responsive Brain  14 minute mark


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


  • 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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