Chapter 8
Read chapter 8. Summarize the chapter. What was the most surprising thing you learned? How does the knowledge from this chapter help you to motivate yourself towards desired goals?
Provide a list of terms at the end of your post that you used from the chapter.
For this blog assignment I want you to choose a real goal that you have. Make it a medium to long term goal (so something at least 1 year away or longer). Using what you know from Chapter 8, how could you go about making it more likely that you will achieve that goal? Be specific in terms of the concepts from chapter 8 and how your application of them to your goal.
By now you know that the social needs are: achievement, intimacy, power, and affiliation.
I want you to search youtube (or other video website) and find one example for each of those four social needs. You likely will NOT be able to search on those terms to find the videos. People posting videos will not know or realize that what they are posting might be demonstrating one of these social needs. So you will need to just browse around.
Describe the clip, discuss how it is an example of the particular social need, and then provide the link.
Do this for each of the four social needs.
This week's topical blog will be devoted to your analysis of the movie Good Will Hunting.
This movie has concepts from Chapters 5-7.
Watch the movie. Take notes.
Next, write your comment. Your comment does not need to provide an overview of the movie (we have all seen it). Your comment should be an in-depth analysis of one or more principles from your text. You should use scenes and characters to provide examples of textbook concepts. Your comment should reflect that you are in an upper division, university level Motivation and Emotion course and clearly link elements from the movie to the textbook. This is a comprehensive assignment (linking course lectures, textbook, and the movie) and you cannot do that in just a few short paragraphs.
BE SPECIFIC. At the bottom of your comment, please put a list of the ME terms you used.
Chapter 7
Read chapter 7. Summarize the chapter. What was the most surprising thing you learned? If you had to rate yourself as high, medium, low, on the various social needs, what would those ratings be? How do those various levels manifest themselves in your life? Choose one social need and discuss how it motivates some of your specific behaviors.
Provide a list of terms at the end of your post that you used from the chapter.
I want you to go to PostSecret http://www.postsecret.com/ or OneSentence http://www.onesentence.org/. Browse around. If you've never been here, you'll be addicted. Guaranteed. You will laugh. You will be surprised. Maybe even shocked. These are glimpses into private worlds. Many of them are also good examples of psychological needs.
What was your experience reading these? How do they make you feel? How do they make you think? Choose a couple of examples (provide them in your comment) and describe in detail how they reflect the presence or absence of a particular psychological need. Justify your answer by providing evidence from the book about that psychological need, and you linking it to the secret or OneSentence you've chosen.
Check out this animation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
First, how accurate is his information? Any problems compared to your textbook's information on these topics?
Second, how was the experience of watching this? Did it help you understand the material better? If so why?
If I gave you 24 hours of autonomy (for use for this course though!) what do you think you could do? What information would you pursue? What would you make? Or create? Or discover? How would you use your time to learn more about motivation or emotion, or use your knowledge to do something?
Chapter 6
Read chapter 6. Summarize the chapter. What was the most surprising thing you learned? If you had to rate yourself as high, medium, low, on the various psychological needs, what would those ratings be? How do those various levels manifest themselves in your life? Choose one psychological need and discuss how it motivates some of your specific behaviors.
If you had to make a guess, what's the deal with the fish picture? How does it relate to this chapter?
Provide a list of terms at the end of your post that you used from the chapter.
Read Chapter 5.
Summarize the chapter. What was the most surprising/interesting thing you learned? Is it possible to be intrinsically motivated yet still be paid? What are some examples of how you are intrinsically and extrinsically motivated? How will information from this chapter change how you think about motivating yourself for school/career success?
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