Motivation and emotion/Lectures/Historical development and assessment skills

Lecture 02: Historical development and assessment skills

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This is the second lecture for the Motivation and emotion unit of study.

Overview

This lecture:

1. Discusses the historical context and development of psychological motivation and emotion knowledge.
2. Explains the assessment, including how to:
   1. use Wikiversity for the topic development and book chapter assessment exercises and
   2. develop a multimedia recording
   3. complete the quizzes
   4. access additional support for completing the assessment exercises

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Multimedia

1. Why are we doing the assessment this way? A vision of students today (Youtube)

This video introduces motivation:

1. The Power of Motivation: Crash Course Psychology #17 (CrashCourse, Youtube) (Watch until 6:04; total 11:19 mins)

These videos explain the basic concept of a wiki and the purpose of the Wikipedia project:

1. Wikis in plain English (Commoncraft) (3:53 mins)
2. Wikipedia - An investment for your future; your children's future (4:10 mins)

Example multimedia presentation:

1. Artistic creation motivation: What motivates artists to create art?, 2016 (3:06 mins)

Readings

1. Chapter 02: Motivation in historical perspective (Reeve, 2015)
2. Assessment
   1. Book chapter
   2. Multimedia
   3. Quizzes
3. How to use Wikiversity

Slides

• Lecture slides - Part A - Historical development (Google slides)
• Lecture slides - Part B - Assessment skills (Google slides)
• Handouts 2018:
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See also

• Introduction (Previous lecture)
• Brain and physiological needs (Next lecture)
• Tutorial 1: Introduction
• Drive reduction theory (learning theory) (Wikipedia)
• Drive-reduction theory of motivation: What is drive reduction theory and how does it apply to our everyday lives? (Book chapter, 2017)

Recording

• Lecture 02 recording (2018)

External links

• Drive-reduction theory and human behavior: Biological need motivates behavior (verywellmind)