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Motivation

Motivation. 10/10/11 Taylor Robinson Greg Hale Preston Ulibarri. What’s Your Motivation?. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uhCxBk6cQE. What is Motivation?. Motivation: The need or desire that energizes and directs behavior. Three Perspectives of Motivation: Drive-Reduction Theory

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Motivation

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  1. Motivation 10/10/11 Taylor Robinson Greg Hale Preston Ulibarri

  2. What’s Your Motivation? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uhCxBk6cQE

  3. What is Motivation? • Motivation: The need or desire that energizes and directs behavior. • Three Perspectives of Motivation: • Drive-Reduction Theory • Arousal Theory • “Hierarchy of Needs” Theory • Hunger • The Need to Belong • Other Emotions

  4. Drive-Reduction Theory • Drive-Reduction Theory • Unmet biological and psychological needs • Body pushes us to meet these needs • Pulled by Incentives • Toasted Ants vs. Toast

  5. Arousal Theory • Arousal Theory • Seek other Stimulus • Stress and decreased arousal • Aron Ralston: “Because it is there…”

  6. Hierarchy of Needs

  7. Hunger • WWII Concentration Camps • Ancel Keys’s Experiment • Became food obsessed • Extremely Important Motivator • Dehumanized • Distant with the world

  8. The Need to Belong • The Social Animal • Boosted Chances of Survival • Conforming to fit the group • Good impressions • Billions spent on looks • Ostracism • Kipling Williams • Aggression • Depression

  9. Emotion • Motivation and Powerful Emotions are linked • Adaptive Level Phenomenon • Can you buy your happiness? • Relative Deprivation • Tragedy • University of Wisconsin’s Study

  10. So what? • Motivation arises from stimulus • Understand what motivates us • Three Perspectives • Hunger • Need to Belong • Emotions • Questions?

  11. Test Question • Can you name one of the three perspectives, and briefly explain it? • Drive-Reduction Theory • assumes that all unmet biological and psychological needs (hunger or thirst) create an aroused state • Arousal Theory • once our biological needs are met (hunger, thirst, ect) that we may feel bored and seek other stimulation to increase our arousal • Hierarchy of Needs • Abraham Maslow’s pyramid that ranges from the most basic of needs to the most advanced starting with your necessary biological needs and ending with transcendence needs

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