March 2012 Archives

Chapter 11 & 12

Read chapters 11 & 12. This does not need to be a double length blog. Summarize the main concepts. What was the most surprising thing you learned? What does this all have to do with motivation?

Provide a list of terms at the end of your post that you used from the chapter.

Go to Paul Ekman's FACE Training website http://face.paulekman.com/default.aspx

review as you'd like, you can also review his main website http://www.paulekman.com/

For this post, scroll down to the bottom of the FACE Training site and complete the METT Demo. What was it like for you? How can you relate it to the science of emotion from chapters 11 and 12? How does/might it relate to motivation?

People's Choice

browse around the blog, the internet, youtube, wikipedia, wherever suits your fancy, and find something related to motivation and emotion that really interests *you*....read about that topic from that first site you find, and then find 2 sites that further explain or provide examples of your topic...in your response, clearly indicate what the topic is, how it is related to motivation and emotion, what specific terminology is it about or is it an example of....be detailed in your response. provide the terms and the three links at the bottom.

Chapter 10

Read chapter 10. Summarize the chapter. What was the most surprising thing you learned? What does the self have to do with motivation? How does this knowledge 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.

This week's topical blog will be devoted to your analysis of the movie American Beauty.

This movie has concepts from Chapters 7-9.

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 9

Read chapter 9. Summarize the chapter. What was the most surprising thing you learned? How do personal control beliefs serve to encourage (motivate) or discourage behavior? Provide an example of each (an encouraged and discouraged behavior) and specifically discuss how personal control beliefs would influence those behaviors.

Provide a list of terms at the end of your post that you used from the chapter.