Assignment 2: Motivation

You may use this template as a guide for your written assignment this week.

Review the material presented in your Adapt lecture notes on Motivation. In psychology, Motivation refers to the forces that push and pull us toward specific goals and behaviors. Motivation is generally either internal (biological, cognitive) or external (environmental, situational). Understanding how motivation works is key to guiding others and encouraging the highest level of performance.

This assignment integrates two of the topics covered in your Adapt lecture this week: Psychological Theories and Achievement Motivation.

1. Provide a reflective summary where you discuss what motivated you to pursue your college education and provide a context for why this may have been important to you. Make some mention of how you came to the decision to move forward with your academic pursuits.

2. Your text has identified three major types of Achievement Goals. Based on your assigned readings and videos in the Adapt lecture, define Achievement Motivation and discuss how each of the following types of goals may impact your academic journey currently or in the future:

· Mastery goals

· Performance approach goals

· Performance avoidance goals

· Be sure that your ideas are based on the material from your assigned readings or videos, and not simply opinion. (1 paragraph)

3. Based on your assigned readings and videos in the Adapt lecture, look at the psychological theories of motivation and discuss whether your motivation, as described above, is intrinsic or extrinsic. Provide a rationale for your choice.

· Be sure that your ideas are based on the material from your assigned readings or videos, and not simply opinion. (1 paragraph)

4. Discuss which theory would best describe your level of motivation thus far: Incentive Theory of Motivation or the Humanistic Theory of Motivation? Provide a rationale for your choice of theory.

· Be sure that your ideas are based on the material from your assigned readings or videos, and not simply opinion. (1 paragraph)

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