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I've come up with an environmental stimuli of cheesecake. There can be several aroused motives and resulting behaviors from seeing cheesecake or having it around you. Some arounsed motives: hunger, avoidence, goal, and relatedness. Here are the resulting behaviors, in order of the aroused motives: eat the cheesecake, throw the cheesecake away (don't like cheesecake/allergic to it), put the cheesecake away (trying to diet), and share the cheesecake with friends.

For my example, the environmental stimulus is talking in class. Possible aroused motives could include the following: achievement, relatedness, affiliation, external motivation, or interest. A student may talk in class because it gives them a feeling of achievement because they have added their part in class in a positive and interesting way. Other students are sharing their opinion and now another student has the same opinion and wants to show support for the previous opinions and because of relatedness may also speak up in class. Affiliation might arouse a student to talk in class because other students are talking and in order to feel part of the group they may also talk. In order to pass this specific class each student must talk in class everyday and if the student is motivated to do so it could be because they were forced to do so which is due to external motivation or an outside motivator. A simple explanation to why a student is motivated to talk in class could be because of interest motivation. A student might find a particular subject exciting so they may want to raise their hand and talk about their interest in the subject. All of these aroused motives can explain why a student might be motivated to talk in class.

I have come up with the environmental stimuli of a recieving and possibly responding to a text message. Some aroused motives could be; relatedness, avoidance, introjection, and value.

If we are going with relatedness, you would want to read and respond to your text message. The resulting behavior may be that you feel included with your social circle and may have gotten invited to a fun event that you want to go to. You would also feel good that someone feels close enough to you to share some news.

A second option could be that you ignore and avoid the text message all together because you are not in the mood to talk to the person that sent you believe could have sent the message. You could be mad at them or you could just think that the message is trivial and don't want to bothered with it at the moment. This beahvior could result in the person who sent you the message getting upset or having them keep contacting you until you do answer.

Introjection could also be a possible motivator to answering a text message you recieve. Maybe you feel guilty that you haven't talked to that person in a while or you just took too long to respond. As a result, the guilt could keep eating away at you until you finally cave and respond.

The final thing that could be a possible motivator is value. Responding to a text message from certain people could be important to you because you care about them and want to be a part of their life. If it's a family member or good friend that you receive a text message from, you could also be slightly concerned that something could be wrong and that they need someone to talk to. This could especially be the case if the text message comes from someone that normally doesn't contact you. This could result in the behavior of, in the very least, reading the message.

For my environmental stimulus I chose something that hit close to home, Facebook. Facebook could cause several aroused motives, such as affiliation, humor, avoidance, interest, achievement, etc.
Affiliation is a fairly obvious motive because Facebook is designed to connect people together. While on Facebook, you are communicating with friends via status updates, comments, and instant message.
I figured that humor would be a motive because sometimes people just want a good laugh and I'm sure a good number of us have those friends who leave hysterical status updates. So some may sign on to seek out a good laugh.
Avoidance is a motive that some people have. You may avoid those annoying quizzes and events by hitting the ignore option. Or, you may even try to avoid Facebook all together so that you don't procrastinate with your homework.
Interest ties in with humor and affiliation. You may be interested in seeing what fun (or in most cases, trivial) things your friends are up to.
Finally, achievement. Odd motive to include, I know. However, for those die-hard Facebook gamers, you are competing with your friends for the top spot on the scoreboards and are driven to spend a lot of time (sometimes hours) trying to achieve that top spot.

I chose getting up early as my envoronmental stimulus. Some aroused motives for getting up early would be for a goal. Associated with the goal as the motive would be the behavior of seeing if it is possible to get up so early. Another aroused motive would be introjection. A behavior that would be asociated with introjection is because the person feels that they should get up early because there is no sense in sleeping in or being lazy. One more aroused motive for getting up early could be external regulation. The behavior could be because somebody is making them get up early for possibly school, sports practice, to go to work, etc.

Coffee is an enivronmental stimulus that I come across daily. It arouses motives in me such as thirst, relaxation, and affiliation.

Thirst, a motivation that many of us can relate to, motivates me in the morning to get up and grab a cup of coffee. It tastes good and most definitely hits the spot!

Relaxation is a possible motivator because I know personally when I smell coffee, it automatically puts me in a mood where I can visualize myself in a little coffee shop somewhere free of noise and full of relaxation. I almost always sit down and relax when I drink my coffee.

Affiliation, which happens to me almost always when I have coffee, is a good motivator because it inspires me to be around good friends have great conversations.

An example of an environmental stimuli that I come across daily is the scent of food. The motives that are aroused from this stimuli include: hunger, interest, relaxation, and rest.

Hunger is aroused because of the various odors I sense. Whether or not I find those odors pleasing, determines their effect. I am more motivated if I recognize an odor and can relate that scent to a previous pleasant food encounter. I am less motivated if I find the scent to be unpleasant.

Interest is aroused when I smell food because I often find myself wondering what certain scents are. I find that I am most interested in the scents when I am hungry. As stated above, I become more interested in food if I find the scent to be pleasant and if I can relate it to a previous pleasant food experience.

I am motivated to relax when I smell food. As much as possible, I like to take lunch in a place where I am able to break away from my daily activities. This time period allows me to find relaxation and also to rest. I often pair my meals with relaxation and rest because I find it very personally rewarding and a great way to stay motivated for the rest of my day. This sense of relaxation and rest can be attributed to my parents who would cooked daily and provided my brothers and I with a very relaxing eating environment.

My environmental stimulus is being involved in a club on campus. Persons may experience some of these aroused motives: intrinsic motivation, external motivation, possible self and positive affect, achievement, and/or avoidance.
Everyone has a different opinion about how much time he/she dedicates to an organization outside of the classroom, if any. For instance, joining a club on campus can be an intrinsic motivator for some people. Some people enjoy meeting new people, working with others, and participating in a club’s events. Therefore, joining a club can be very enjoyable to some people.
An example of an external motivation of joining a club on campus may be that a teacher has assigned each student to perform a certain number of community service hours with a specific group. This may seem that each student is forced to perform this task.
For some people, the resulting behavior of being involved in a club with a sense of possible self and positive affect can be rewarding. For instance, if a person joins a group which participates in community service events (working at a food pantry, visiting persons in a nursing home, etc.), a person may feel inspired and may feel good about themselves and others.
Achievement can also be considered an aroused motive in this event. As a member of a group, a person may feel achievement when holding a leadership position within the club. Recruiting more members into a club can also be considered an achievement. A person can feel achievement as he/she is trying to make his/her club successful.
Avoidance is another aroused motive someone may experience. A person may not like interacting with other people or may feel that he/she doesn’t have time to join a group outside of the classroom. Whatever the case may be, a person may try to avoid participating in a club event, altogether.
These are just a few aroused motives and their behaviors for my environmental stimulus of participating in a club on campus.

My environmental stimulus is loud music from the apartment next door. The aroused motives include distraction, lack of sleep, wanting to participate.
Distraction is a motive because it's hard to do anything when loud music is blaring next door.
The resulting behavior for distraction could include not getting homework completed.
Lack of sleep is a motive because if the music is being played while you are trying to sleep it makes sleeping potentially difficult.
The resulting behavior for lack of sleep could include not waking up in time the next morning for class because you had difficulty getting sleep the night before.
Wanting to participate is a motive because potentially hearing the music makes you want to go out with friends when you need to stay home to study.
The resulting behavior for wanting to participate could also include not getting school work done or spending to much money going out.

I chose an infected eye as my environmental stimulus. The aroused motives for an infected eye are seeing a doctor for medicine, contacts, glasses, an eye patch, and rubbing or touch it.
Seeing a doctor for medicine is a motive because you use (most of us) your eye to take notes, to see where you are going, and to know our surroundings without taking care of your eye things will get complicated than they really ought to be.
Where your contacts while having an infected eye is not such a good idea, true it helps you see better but if the eye is infected I really doubt you will be able to see anything and you risk infected the other eye or making that same eye worse.
Wearing glasses is a step for making your infected eye feel better but it does not get rid of the infection.
An eye patch may become useful in order not to stress the eye out, if stressing the eye out too much it may cause the infected eye to become irritated.
Rubbing or touching the infected eye is a no no. You may make the infected eye worse to the point it shuts close or spreading the infection to another person or your good eye.
It's amazing how many environmental stimuli there are around you and the aroused motives that they are linked to.

The environmental stimulus of employment.
Besides the obvious extrinsic motivation of being paid for working, you also have perceived competence if you have a good day at work.Some may have goals such as getting a promotion or getting a certain amount of work done each day. These motivation would lead to working harder.In some situations it is external regulation because while we don't want to most of us have to work in order to pay for college/other expenses.Likewise, people often don't skip work in order to avoid guilt(introjection). Also you can then have personal control over your finances by going to work and putting in the hours.There is also value in not being unemployed. Sometimes, if you are lucky, there is also the motivation of relatedness if you work with your friends.

The environmental stimulus that I have come up with is preparing to give a presentation. Several possible aroused motives include anxiety, sickness, fear and avoidance. Anxiety could be because you are nervous about getting up in front and talking. Sickness goes along with anxiety; if you are over anxious and worry you might become sick to your stomach. Fear could occur if you’re worried about doing a bad job on your presentation and thus will get a bad grade. The last one, avoidance, if you get nervous while presentation you might try and find ways to avoid doing the presentation.

The resulting behaviors to the specific motives would be: If you have anxiety, it might make you practice more so you have your presentation down pat or it might make you just worry the whole time and not be able to focus on your actual presentation. If you start to feel sick during your presentation because of nerves it will take your attention off of the presentation and on to your feelings of sickness which will cause more anxiety in turn. If you are fearful of doing well, you might try overly hard to do a good job on your presentation such as being really prepared. With avoidance you might try and forget about your presentation, which could mean you will do a bad job on it. You could wait to the last minute to do your presentation and then not get it done or not be prepared enough. You also might try and find ways to get out of doing your presentation, which could backfire and get you into trouble.

Stimulus is a window light catcher. The aroused motives would be to see the colors move or to feel the texture of the glass or crystal. The resulting behavior would be to touch it or grab and somehow spin or move it. I know that shiny things are my kryptonite and I can never help but to touch or spin things that catch the light.