PSYC 3420H Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Falsifiability, Drive Theory, Employee Engagement

• School: Trent University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3420H
• Professor: Fergal O' Hagan

Document Summary

Lecture 1 & chapter 1 - tues may 12th. Introduction: learning objectives, define motivation and emotion o, explain how motivation gets its energy and direction. Identify the two perennial questions in the study of motivation. 36 year old driver , suffered from workplace injury, became withdrawn from work & kids. Behaviour is aimed toward achieving a particular purpose or goal: energy, direction, motivational science. Conditions within the individual that are essential & necessary for. Mental events, such as thoughts, beliefs, expectations and our. Short lived subjective-physiological-functional expressive phenomena that influences how we react. Ex: guilt, fear, anxiety, ptsd, pleasure: external events. Environmental, social and cultural sources of motivation that energize and direct behaviour. Can exist as general situations and surrounding climates. Ex: money, praise, recognition, class climates or culture: hierarchy of motivation o. Ex: hunger; watch whether a person eats hurriedly, Pay close to the antecedents known to give rise to after a threat is presented, you can see fear.