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Agenda – Monday, March 31st
Collect take-home quiz
Bozo Buckets
Motivation background notes
Homework: Reading Quiz
WEDNESDAY
Exam #4 FRIDAY
AP Test
Countdown
35 days
! (24 school days)Slide2
Bozo Buckets
In front of you will be five targets. Each is placed an increasing distance from where you are standing. You have THREE beanbags to toss at the target of your choice.Slide3
Bozo Buckets
If you hit target
#1:
Earn 2 points
Target
#2:
Earn 4 points
Target
#3:
Earn 8 points
Target
#4:
Earn 16 points
Target
#5:
Earn 32 pointsSlide4
Motivation
n-Ach: Need for achievement
Desire to overcome obstacles and to meet high standards of excellence
David McClelland (yellow sheet) argues that if you have HIGH n-Ach, you will shoot for the third or fourth bucket
Why?Slide5
Motivation
LOW n-Ach:
Select “sure” things AND/OR impossible goals
HIGH n-Ach:
Avoid goals that are too easy, but also know limits
Very INTRINSICALLY motivated
Ask yourself: Why are you in the class?
Contributes to the four types of motivation discussed in this chapterSlide6
Motivation
All processes involved in starting, directing, and maintaining physical and psychological activities
Types of motivation:
Hunger
Sexual
Social
WorkSlide7
Theories of Motivation
Why are we motivated to behave a certain way?
Example:
Are you motivated to consume a
Bacon-
ator
when you are starving in the same way you are motivated to do well in high school and receive college scholarships?Slide8
Theory #1
Drive Reduction Theory
What is it?
Motivation comes from our desires to reduce internal drives by meeting our needs
Physiological needs
Food, water, sleep, etc.
Internal drives Hunger, thirst, exhaustion, etc.Slide9
Theory #2
Optimum Arousal Theory
What is it?
People feel motivated to maintain a certain level of arousal, despite a lack of physical drives to do so
Examples: Riding a roller coaster, seeing people after being along all day, attending a concertSlide10
Theory #2
Yerkes-Dodson Law (aka “The Inverted U”)
Low and high levels of arousal produce lower performance than moderate arousalSlide11
Theory #3
Incentive
Theory
What is it?
Motivation is the combination of factors that push us towards something or pull us away from pursuing something
Examples
Detentions and extra credit are used to motivate behavior
Runners run to either beat their own times or to beat other runnersSlide12
Theory #4
Instinct
Theory
What is it?
Automatic innate responses to certain environmental experiences
Examples
Geese fly south for the winter (response) when the weather becomes cold (environment)
Babies search for food (response) when something touches their face (environment)Slide13
Theory #5
Maslow’s Hierarchy of
Needs
What is it?
Abraham Maslow’s argument that we are motivated to achieve certain basic needs before pursuing higher psychological needs
Example
People do not want to work on their marriage problems when they are starving and homelessSlide14