From the lectures in
class to reading Endurance: Shackleton’s
Incredible Voyage outside of class, I learned a vast amount of terminology and
an overall understanding of motivation psychology. All in all, I highly enjoyed
my time spent in class and additionally, my time spent reading the novel outside of
class. It was beyond interesting learning about motivation from an educational
and psychological viewpoint.
Each and every lecture had aspects that were both
extremely informative and also entertaining and stimulating. Chapter 5
discusses the homeostasis of temperature, thirst, hunger, and eating. In this
lecture, there were videos shown discussing mindless eating. I was unaware that
we mindlessly eat as much as we do! In the video, there was an experiment
involving individuals eating out of a soup bowl that gradually would fill back
up after soup was taken out of it from the individual eating it. The experiment
showed that we base our hunger and our feeling of being full on whether or not our plate
or bowl is full or empty- how fascinating!
The lecture discussing chapter 3 from our textbook was
the most attention-grabbing to me. It discussed evolutionary antecedents of
motivation like the universal motives of sex, fear, food and music. The sex
aspect of the chapter involved the explanation behind our selection of a mate.
I found the Dove video the most interesting in the lecture. It shows how our society
has extremely high standards for beauty and attractiveness in females.
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