Motivation and Emotion

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Motivation and Emotion

• Quality is never an accident it is always a
  result of high intention, sincere effort,
  intelligent direction and skillful execution it
  represents the wise choice of many alternatives.
• Willa A.Foster

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Welcome to week 11!

• Well use your completed syllabus pages 32 and 33
  next week (not pages 36 and 37, sorry)
• Exam is 3-30. Two essays Erikson and Memory
• Prepare for the quiz on Chapter 10 Motivation,
  put Chapter 10 and your row number on your
  scantron and earn 5 points for each correct
  answer!

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Motivation Essay

• Motivation Describe your peak experience
  including the following
• _____/10 What is self-actualization?
• _____/5 What happened?
• _____/10 What did it mean to you then?
• _____/10 What does it mean to you now and how has
  it changed you?
• _____/15 What three new personality traits do you
  now have as a result of this experience? (5 each)
• _____/50

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Memory Essay

• Memory Describe how a stimulus becomes a memory
  using the model described in class and an example
• _____/5 Stimulus
• _____/5 Attention

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• _____/10 Sensory storage (iconic 5, echoic
  5)
• _____/10 Short term memory
• lasts lt 1 min (2)
• acoustic (2)
• electrical (4)
• 7/- two items (2)
• _____/5 Rehearsal
• (7 rehearsals (2)
• moves stimulus from STM to LTM (3) )

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• _____/10 Long term memory (infinite (5), chemical
  (5) )
• _____/3 Encoding (memory trace or engram)
• ____/2 Retrieval (remember or forget)

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Development Essay

• Development Describe Eriksons psychosocial
  stage of intimacy versus isolation
• _____/5) At what age does it occur?
• _____/15) What is the task of this stage?
• _____/15) Is successful in this stage, how does
  an adult act?
• _____/15) If unsuccessful in this stage, how does
  an adult act?
• _____/50

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Motivation

• Motivation
• a need or desire that energizes and directs
  behavior
• Instinct
• complex behavior that is rigidly patterned
  throughout a species and is unlearned

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Maslows Hierarchy of Needs
Self-actualization needs Need to live up to ones
fullest and unique potential

• Peak Experiences occur at the top of this
  hierarchy

Esteem needs Need for self-esteem, achievement,
competence, and independence need
for recognition and respect from others
Belongingness and love needs Need to love and be
loved, to belong and be accepted need to avoid
loneliness and alienation
Safety needs Need to feel that the world is
organized and predictable need to feel safe,
secure, and stable
Physiological needs Need to satisfy hunger and
thirst
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Your motivation

• 1-no motivation
• 2-average motivation
• 3- maximum motivation
• How motivated are you in your courses?

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Your motivation continued

• 1-no motivation
• 2-average motivation
• 3- maximum motivation
• How motivated do you expect to be in your
  profession?

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If there is a difference, how do you explain it?
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• What does being asked these questions make you
  think about?

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Exam 4 Study Items

• Homeostasis
• Motivation
• Rehearsal
• Type A B personalities
• Encoding Retrieval failure
• Need
• Short term Long term Memory
• Mnemonics

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Study items continued

• Lowest-level of need in Maslows hierarchy
• Serial position effect
• Retroactive interference
• Psycho physiological illness
• Type A B personality
• General adaptation syndrome

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Study Items continued

• Aerobic exercise
• Belongingness needs
• chunking
• Encoding
• Iconic memory
• Process of getting info out of memory storage
• catharsis
• Echoic memory

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Self-Actualization

• Fulfilling ones potential
• Maximizing awareness, skill, personal
  characteristics
• Being more tomorrow than you are today!

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Self-Actualization Survey

• Write this response scale in your notes
• 1. disagree
• 2. somewhat disagree
• 3. somewhat agree
• 4. agree

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Questions

• 1. I do not feel ashamed of my emotions
• 2. I do not feel I must do what others expect me
  to do.
• 3. I believe that people are good and
  trustworthy.
• 4. I feel free to be angry at those I love.
• 5. It is not necessary that others approve of
  what I do.

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Questions continued

• 6. I accept my own weaknesses.
• 7. I can like people without having to approve
  of them.
• 8. I do not fear failure.
• 9. I like mental challenges.
• 10. It is better to be yourself than to be
  popular.

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Questions continued

• 11. I have a mission in my life that I feel
  dedicated to accomplish.
• 12. I can express my feelings even when they may
  result in tension.
• 13. I feel responsible to help others.
• 14. I am not bothered by fears of being
  inadequate.
• 15. I am loved because I am loveable.

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Scoring the Survey

• Below 15, not much growth!
• 15-29 low self-actualization
• 30-44 medium self-actualization
• 45-60 high self-actualization

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The Arbitrary Scale of Life

• 5 Self-Actualizing
• 4 On the path toward self- actualization
• 3 normal, average, maintaining
• 2 - problems in at least one area
• (work, play, relationships, sex)
• 1 problems in all areas

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Characteristics of Self-Actualizing People

• Efficient perception of reality
• Sincere acceptance of self and others
• Spontaneity, simplicity, naturalness
• Task oriented
• High need for privacy
• General independence of culture

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Characteristics continued

• Freshness of appreciation
• Capacity for peak experiences
• Sincere interest in humanity
• Deep personal relationships
• Democratic character structure
• Non-hostile sense of humor
• Creative

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Characteristics continued

• Fully experience life in the present
• Make growth choices, not fear choices
• Strive toward honesty
• Meaningful life activities

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Emotional Intelligence

• Self-awareness knowing what you feel and using
  your gut sense to make decisions you can live
  with happily, having a strategy for understanding
  your emotions, making good sense of them, and
  good decisions based on feelings combined with
  reality.

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Emotional Intelligence

• Motivation zeal, persistence and optimism in the
  face of lifes setbacks, finding purpose and
  meaning in what you do so you face obstacles and
  handle them because your goals are worth it!

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E.I.

• Management of Feelings controlling impulses,
  soothing your anxiety, having anger that is
  appropriate, being assertive with yourself about
  your beliefs so they are self-enhancing, not
  ruminating or obsessing with self-defeating
  thoughts that are irrational and persistent

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E.I.

• Empathy reading and responding to unspoken
  feelings and having the courage to bring them up,
  being brave enough to deal with emotions rather
  than try to make them go away.

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E.I.

• Social Skill handing emotional reactions in
  others, interacting smoothly, managing
  relationships effectively, face to face
  resolutions, dealing with things in a timely
  manner, telling the truth, not being attached to
  the outcome when you know you did the right
  thing, examine your motives!

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Emotional Quotient

• I am aware of subtle feelings when I have them.
• I find myself using my feelings to help make
  decisions.
• Bad moods do not overwhelm me.
• I express my anger effectively.
• I can delay my gratification.

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E.Q.

• I prepare well and accomplish public speaking or
  testing with success.
• I stay hopeful and optimistic in the face of
  challenges and setbacks.
• I can sense what people feel.
• I am compassionate about others situations.

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E.Q.

• I can handle emotional upset in others.
• I can sense the pulse of a group or relationship
  and state unspoken feelings.
• I can soothe or contain distressing feelings so
  they dont keep me from doing things I need to do.

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Techniques of Suffering

• 1. Delaying gratification
• 2. Accepting responsibility
• 3. Dedication to the truth
• 4. Balancing all aspects of life