Chapter 3: Motivation and Emotions

What is Motivation?
Motivation is a need or desire that energizes behavior and directs it toward a goal.
It is what either starts or stops behavior. It is the internal and external forces that drive our thoughts, moods, and behaviors.

Importance of Motivation Directs activities towards the achievement of a goal.
Controls and directs human behavior.
Inculcates spiritual and moral values in the minds of the young.
Gives satisfaction and happiness to the individual.

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Motivation and Emotions
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2. Motivation
What is Motivation?
•Motivation is a need or desire that energizes
behavior and directs it toward a goal.
•It is what either starts or stops behavior. It is
the internal and external forces that drive our
thoughts, moods, and behaviors.
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3. Importance of Motivation
•Directs activities towards the achievement of a
goal.
•Controls and directs human behavior.
•Inculcates spiritual and moral values in the
minds of the young.
•Gives satisfaction and happiness to the
individual.
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4. Types of Motivation
•Intrinsic Motivation: an internal stimulus that
arouses one to action.
•It is based on motive, which is always intrinsic.
A motive arouses one to do something.
•For instance, If a learner wants to solve a
mathematical problem however difficult it is, he
can solve it correctly. He feels elated and with
self-fulfillment.
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5. •Extrinsic Motivation: an external stimulus to
action.
•This type of motivation is based on incentive.
•It comes from the outside of the individual,
that is, from the external environment.
•It comes from the form of praise, social
approval, high grades, medals and the likes.
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7. Theories of Motivation
•Different schools of thought look at motivation
(that power that either starts or stops behavior)
through different lenses.
•Instinct theory
•Drive Theory
•Incentive theory
•Cognitive theory
•Arousal Theory
•Maslow’s motivational theory
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8. Instinct Theory
•Instinct theory proposes that organisms are
motivated to engage in certain behaviors
because of their genetic programming and
because these behaviors lead to success in
terms of natural selection.
•For example, we pursue sex in order to
reproduce to propagate the human species.
•It is an innate biological need.
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9. Instinctual Behaviors
•Reproduction and social dominance
•Human beings are territorial “this is our
space” by nature.
•Some animals have instinctual behaviors, like
mating dances and nest building sequences.
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10. Drive Theory
•Drive theory also known as Drive-Reduction
theory or Homeostatictheory.
•This perspective views behavior as motivated
by the need to reduce internal tension caused
by unmet biological needs.
•This unmet need “drives” us to behave in a way
that causes the intensity of the drive to be
reduced.
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11. Cont.
•They work by “negative” feedback, that is one
experiences an unpleasant feeling (hunger,
thirst) until you meet the need.
•The brain makes sure the body is kept in
balance (body temperature, fluid levels, energy
supplies, need for rest).
•This balance or optimal state is called
homeostasis.
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12. Cont.
•This is our natural state. The body does its best to
stay balanced. (hunger, thirst, sex drive, sleep)
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13. Incentive Theory
•An incentive is the object we seek or the result
we are trying to achieve through our motivated
behavior.
•Incentives are also known as reinforcers, goals,
and rewards.
•Incentive theory states that behavior is
motivated by the pull of external (outside )
goals, such as rewards.
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14. Cont.
•Not all of human behavior has a direct reward
attached to it.
•For example, how about those who are
motivated to achieve just for the sake of
achieving or who do things for fun or personal
growth.
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16. Cognitive Theory
•Cognitive psychologists seek to explain
motivation by looking at forces inside and
outside of us that energize us to move.
•They propose that we act in particular ways at
particular times as a result of extrinsic and
intrinsic motivations.
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17. Cont.
•For example, if you spend hours playing
basketball because you wish to excel at the
sport, you are following intrinsic motivation.
•If you spend hours playing basketball because
your parents want you to excel at the sport, you
are following extrinsic motivation.
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18. Arousal Theory
•People are motivated
to maintain an
optimum level of
arousal—neither too
high nor too low
•Curiosity motive—
helps us to understand
our environment.
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19. Maslow’s Motivational Theory
•Abraham Maslow suggested that motives are
divided into several levels from basic survival
needs to psychological and self-fulfillment
needs.
•The more basic needs are at the bottom and the
higher level needs are at the top.
•Before higher ordered needs are satisfied in the
hierarchy, the primary needs must be satisfied.
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21. Motives
•Motive is generally defined as a state of
physiological or psychological arousal which
influences how we behave.
•It is a physiological arousal, such as hunger or
thirst, motivates us to eat or get something to
drink.
•For example, if you see someone buying food in a
shop, you may come to the conclusion that they
are hungry and so they must be driven by
physiological arousal.
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22. Types of Motives
1.Biological motives
•Biological motives are critical to our survival
and physical well-being.
•We have built in regulating systems that work
to maintain:
-Body temperature
-Blood sugar levels
-Production of hormones, etc.
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23. 2. Social Motives
•Social motives are also known as acquired or
learned motives.
•These some complex forms of motives, which
result mainly from man’s interaction with his
social environment.
•These motives are called social,because they
learned in social groups.
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24. Emotions
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25. Emotions
•Emotion is defined as a state characterized by
physiological arousal, changes in facial
expression, gestures, posture and subjective
feelings.
•An example of physiological changes (or arousal)
are a pounding heart, sweating palms,
“butterflies in the stomach”, and other bodily
reactions.
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26. Eight Primary Emotions
•Fear
•Surprise
•Sadness
•Disgust
•Anger
•Anticipation
•Happy
•Trust
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27. Emotions include three things
•Conscious experience (feelings)
•Expressions which can be seen by others
•Actions of the body ('physiological arousal')
Emotion is associated with:
•Mood
•Temperament
•Personality
•Disposition
•Motivation
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28. Categories of Emotion
Emotions are divided into two categories:
1. Primary emotion: a primary human emotion
types are the one triggered in response to an event.
Examples of primary emotions:
•Love
•Joy
•Anger
•Sadness
•Surprise
•Fear
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29. 2. Secondary emotion: If we experience fear, the
secondary emotions would be: feel threatened or
feel anger, depending on the situation we are
experiencing.
Examples of secondary emotions:
•Passion
•Optimism
•Irritation
•Disgust
•Shame
•Nervousness
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30. Historical Perspectives of Emotion
James-Lange Theory
of Emotion
•Emotion arises from
physiological arousal
–Happiness comes
from smiling
–Sadness comes from
crying
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31. Cont.
Cannon-Bard Theory of Emotion
•Emotion originates in the thalamus.
•“Body” (physiological systems) and “Mind”
(emotional experience) are independently
activated at the same time.
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32. Human Emotion
•Human emotion is innate in all of us;
•It is something we are born with and something
we die with.
•Happiness, sadness, love, hatred, worries, and
indifference –these are things that constantly
occur in our daily lives.
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33. Variety of Emotions
•Positive emotions: positive emotions that lead
one to feel good about one’s self will lead to an
emotionally happy and satisfied result.
•Some of the positive emotions are:
-Hopeful
-Confident
-Peaceful, etc.
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34. •Negative emotions: negative emotions sap
your energy and undermine your effectiveness.
•In the negative emotional state, you find the
lack of desire to do anything.
•Some of the negative emotions are:
-Exhausted
-Panic
-Obnoxious
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35. Factors affecting Emotions
•Personality
•Culture
•Weather
•Stress
•Age
•Gender
•Environment
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