Motivation And Emotion Worksheet Summary
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Motivation and Emotion Worksheet
Discuss the following as a team and provide a brief summary of the each discussion. The word count for individual answers may vary but your responses should total 500- to 800-words for the entire worksheet.
1. Describe three approaches to motivation. Explain how each approach affects motivation.
Three different approaches to motivation are drive reduction, incentive, and arousal. According to Hockenbury & Hockenbury (2014), “In general, drive theories asserted that behavior is motivated by the desire to reduce internal tension caused by unmet biological needs, such as hunger or thirst” (p. 320). Basically, it comes down to the idea that all of the needs that have not been …show more content…
Emotions cannot get much more basic than that. As a student, the emotion of fear can be a huge negative impact. This fear can easily turn into a fight or flight situation. It can be fear of a class (like math), fear of failure, or even the fear of just becoming a college student. Fear can be detrimental to our performance in class. If we let the emotions take over and we can quickly lose motivation. We feel first and think later (Hockenbury & Hockenbury. 2014). Fear of failure can quickly take over our emotional state and overwhelm our minds. As this takes over we are no longer productive in our schoolwork and in turn fail because of our emotion – …show more content…
He believed that a factor called the g factor was responsible for a person’s overall performance on test of mental ability. Psychologist who follow this approach believe that intelligence can be described as a single measure of general cognitive ability and therefore they could accurately sum up a person’s intelligence by a single number such as an IQ score.
Robert Sternberg’s Triarchic theory of intelligence is broken up into three categories. Practical intelligence involves the ability to adapt to your environment and other cultures, commonly known as “street smarts”. Creative intelligence involves being able to deal with novel situations by drawing on existing skills and knowledge. The person is able to use past experiences to problem solve current situations. Analytic intelligence refers to the mental processes that occur when trying to problem solve, such as picking a problem solving strategy. While conventional intelligence tests are able to measure mental abilities, they do not evaluate the strategies that a person uses to solve a problem; this would be referring to a person’s analytic
Motivation and Emotion Worksheet
Discuss the following as a team and provide a brief summary of the each discussion. The word count for individual answers may vary but your responses should total 500- to 800-words for the entire worksheet.
1. Describe three approaches to motivation. Explain how each approach affects motivation.
Three different approaches to motivation are drive reduction, incentive, and arousal. According to Hockenbury & Hockenbury (2014), “In general, drive theories asserted that behavior is motivated by the desire to reduce internal tension caused by unmet biological needs, such as hunger or thirst” (p. 320). Basically, it comes down to the idea that all of the needs that have not been …show more content…
Emotions cannot get much more basic than that. As a student, the emotion of fear can be a huge negative impact. This fear can easily turn into a fight or flight situation. It can be fear of a class (like math), fear of failure, or even the fear of just becoming a college student. Fear can be detrimental to our performance in class. If we let the emotions take over and we can quickly lose motivation. We feel first and think later (Hockenbury & Hockenbury. 2014). Fear of failure can quickly take over our emotional state and overwhelm our minds. As this takes over we are no longer productive in our schoolwork and in turn fail because of our emotion – …show more content…
He believed that a factor called the g factor was responsible for a person’s overall performance on test of mental ability. Psychologist who follow this approach believe that intelligence can be described as a single measure of general cognitive ability and therefore they could accurately sum up a person’s intelligence by a single number such as an IQ score.
Robert Sternberg’s Triarchic theory of intelligence is broken up into three categories. Practical intelligence involves the ability to adapt to your environment and other cultures, commonly known as “street smarts”. Creative intelligence involves being able to deal with novel situations by drawing on existing skills and knowledge. The person is able to use past experiences to problem solve current situations. Analytic intelligence refers to the mental processes that occur when trying to problem solve, such as picking a problem solving strategy. While conventional intelligence tests are able to measure mental abilities, they do not evaluate the strategies that a person uses to solve a problem; this would be referring to a person’s analytic