Psychology

For undergraduate courses in Motivation.

This experimentally-oriented text provides a critical examination of research and theory with a topical approach. It covers a broad range of motivational concepts from both human and animal theory and research, with an emphasis on the biological bases of motivation.

• NEW - Chapter-opening motivational questions—Replaces chapter outlines of previous edition.

  • Engages students interest in the chapters' topics.

• NEW - Section-end summaries.

  • Enables students to review important concepts, and their understanding of them, in each section before moving on.

• NEW - Rewritten content and added references throughout—Introduces new material.

  • Improves the readability of the text and increases students' interest in it.

• A historical perspective—Maintains its relevancy with new material.

  • Familiarizes students with older concepts and their strengths and weaknesses, which may correlate with new concepts.

• Extensive coverage of emotion (Ch. 2)—Incorporates recent research on theories and analyses of cognition and emotion.

  • Helps students to understand the complex relationship between emotion and motivation.

• In-depth discussion of evolutionary concepts—Includes the role of genetics in relation to emotion/motivation.

  • Provides students with a better understanding of biological backgrounds.

• Systematic presentation of theories—Details the presentation relevant theories of learning and emotion, as well as motivation.

  • Assists students in relating theory and motivation.

• Coverage of preattentive processes—Features (“unconscious processes”) in chapters on emotion (Ch. 2), fear learning (Ch. 8), and anxiety.

  • Introduces students to current concepts within the study of motivation.

• Chapter-opening motivational questions—Replaces chapter outlines of previous edition.

  • Engages students interest in the chapters' topics.

• Section-end summaries.

  • Enables students to review important concepts, and their understanding of them, in each section before moving on.

• Rewritten content and added references throughout—Introduces new material.

  • Improves the readability of the text and increases students' interest in it.

I. ORIENTATION.

II. THE REGULATION OF INTERNAL STATES.

III. THE REGULATION OF BEHAVIOR.

IV. PERSONALITY, SOCIAL, AND COGNATIVE MOTIVES.

Motivation  (Psychology)

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