Motivation and Emotion Worksheet

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Motivation and Emotion Worksheet

Resources: Ch. 7 & 8 of Discovering Psychology and Motivation and Emotion – Interactive Tutorial

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.

Describe three approaches to motivation. Explain how each approach affects motivation.

Motivation is the biological, emotional, cognitive, or social forces that activate and direct behavior (Hockenbury D.H. & Hockenbury S.E., 2014, p. 318). The approaches to motivation are the instinct, drive, incentive, arousal, and humanistic theories.

Instinct theories is the view that certain human behaviors are innate and due to evolutionary programming (Hockenbury D.H. & Hockenbury S.E., 2014, p. 318). The instinct theory of motivation suggests that people are motivated to engage in certain behaviors because of evolutionary programming.

Drive theories is the view that behavior is motivated by the desire to reduce internal tension caused by unmet biological needs (Hockenbury D.H. & Hockenbury S.E., 2014, p. 320). The drive theory of motivation suggests that people are motivated to take certain actions in order to reduce the internal tension that is caused by unmet needs.

Incentive theories is the view that behavior is motivated by the pull of external goals, such as rewards (Hockenbury D.H. & Hockenbury S.E., 2014, p. 320). The incentive theory of motivation suggests that people are motivated to do things because of the external rewards.

Arousal theory is the view that people are motivated to maintain a level of arousal that is optimal, neither too high nor too low (Hockenbury D.H. & Hockenbury S.E., 2014, p. 320). The arousal theory of motivation suggests that people take certain actions to either decrease or increase levels of arousal.

Humanistic theory is the view...