Discussion Week 5: Motivation and Performance

Choose an event in your past that made you feel like you were out of control. What emotions did you experience as a result of the threat to your autonomy?

What behaviors did you engage in as a result? Did you try to seek out other ways to feel in control (i.e., reactance)? Did you give up trying at all (i.e., learned helplessness)?

Given what you have now learned in this chapter, what might you do differently the next time you feel like you are out of control?

Each initial discussion response must be 300 words or more, not including restatements of questions and references, in order to receive the full credit. Each initial response must also contain at least 1 formalized APA 7 references.

                                                                                                       Book reference:

 Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). http://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000  

 Burkley, E., & Burkley, M. (2018). Motivation Science (1st ed.). Pearson.