1. 10/10/11 Taylor Robinson Greg Hale Preston Ulibarri
Motivation
10/10/11
Taylor Robinson
Greg Hale
Preston Ulibarri

2. What’s Your Motivation?

3. What is Motivation?
Motivation: The need or desire that energizes and directs behavior.
Three Perspectives of Motivation:
Drive-Reduction Theory
Arousal Theory
“Hierarchy of Needs” Theory
Hunger
The Need to Belong
Other Emotions

4. Drive-Reduction Theory
Unmet biological and psychological needs
Body pushes us to meet these needs
Pulled by Incentives
Toasted Ants vs. Toast

5. Arousal Theory Arousal Theory Seek other Stimulus
Stress and decreased arousal
Aron Ralston: “Because it is there…”

6. Hierarchy of Needs

7. Hunger WWII Concentration Camps Ancel Keys’s Experiment
Became food obsessed
Extremely Important Motivator
Dehumanized
Distant with the world

8. The Need to Belong The Social Animal Boosted Chances of Survival
Conforming to fit the group
Good impressions
Billions spent on looks
Ostracism
Kipling Williams
Aggression
Depression

9. Emotion Motivation and Powerful Emotions are linked
Adaptive Level Phenomenon
Can you buy your happiness?
Relative Deprivation
Tragedy
University of Wisconsin’s Study

10. So what? Motivation arises from stimulus Understand what motivates us
Three Perspectives
Hunger
Need to Belong
Emotions
Questions?

11. Test Question
Can you name one of the three perspectives, and briefly explain it?
Drive-Reduction Theory
assumes that all unmet biological and psychological needs (hunger or thirst) create an aroused state
Arousal Theory
once our biological needs are met (hunger, thirst, ect) that we may feel bored and seek other stimulation to increase our arousal
Hierarchy of Needs
Abraham Maslow’s pyramid that ranges from the most basic of needs to the most advanced starting with your necessary biological needs and ending with transcendence needs