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Preface | |
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Introduction | |
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Two Perennial Questions | |
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What Causes Behavior? | |
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Why Does Behavior Vary in Its Intensity? | |
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Subject Matter | |
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Internal Motives | |
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External Events | |
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Expressions of Motivation | |
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Behavior | |
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Physiology | |
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Self?Report | |
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Themes in the Study of Motivation | |
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Motivation Benefits Adaptation | |
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Motives Direct Attention | |
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Motives Vary Over Time and Influence the Stream of Behavior | |
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Types of Motivation Exist | |
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Motivation Includes Both Approach and Avoidance Tendencies | |
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Motivation Study Reveals What People Want | |
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To Flourish, Motivation Needs Supportive Conditions | |
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There Is Nothing So Practical As a Good Theory | |
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Putting It All Together: | |
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A Framework to Understand the Study of Motivation | |
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Summary | |
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Motivation in Historical and Contemporary Perspective | |
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Philosophical Origins of Motivational Concepts | |
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Will: The First Grand Theory | |
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Instinct: The Second Grand Theory | |
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Drive: The Third Grand Theory | |
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Freud's Drive Theory | |
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Hull's Drive Theory | |
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Decline of Drive Theory | |
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Post?Drive Theory Years | |
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Rise of the Mini?Theories | |
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Active Nature of the Person | |
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Cognitive Revolution | |
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Applied, Socially Relevant Research | |
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Contemporary Mini-Theories Era | |
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The 1990s Return of Motivation Study | |
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Conclusion | |
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Summary | |
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Readings for Further Study | |
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The Motivated and Emotional Brain | |
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The Motivated and Emotional Brain | |
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Three Principles.Specific brain structures generate specific motivational and emotional states. | |
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2. Biochemical agents stimulate brain structures | |
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3. Day-to-day events stir biochemical agents into action | |
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Looking Inside the Brain | |
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Brain-Generated Approach vs. Avoidance | |
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Hypothalamus | |
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Medial Forebrain Bundle | |
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Amygdala | |
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Septo-Hippocampal Circuit | |
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Reticular Formation | |
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Prefrontal Lobes of the Cerebral Cortex | |
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Neurotransmitter Pathways in the Brain | |
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Dopamine | |
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Dopamine Release and the Anticipation of Reward | |
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Biology of Reward | |
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Dopamine and Motivated Action | |
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The World in Which the Brain Lives | |
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Motivation Cannot Be Separated from the Social Context in which It Is Embedded | |
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We Are Not Always Consciously Aware of the Motivational Basis of our Behavior | |
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Conclusion | |
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Summary | |
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Readings for Further Study | |
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Needs. | |
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Physiological Needs | |
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Need | |
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Fundamentals of Regulation | |
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Physiological Need | |
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Psychological Drive | |
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Homeostasis | |
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Negative Feedback | |
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Multiple Inputs/Multiple Outputs | |
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Intra?Organismic Mechanisms | |
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Extra?Organismic Mechanisms | |
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Thirst | |
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Physiological Regulation | |
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Thirst activation | |
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Third satiety | |
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Hypothalamus and liver | |
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Environmental Influences | |
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Hunger | |
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Short-Term Appetite | |
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Long-Term Energy Balance | |
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Environmental Influences | |
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Restraint-release Situations | |
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Cognitively-regulated eating style | |
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Weight gain and obesity | |
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Sex | |
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Physiological Regulation | |
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Facial Metrics | |
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Sexual Scripts | |
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Sexual Orientation | |
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Evolutionary Basis of Sexual Motivation | |
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Failures to Self?Regulate Physiological Needs | |
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Summary | |
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Readings for Further Study. | |
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Psychological Needs | |
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Psychological Needs | |
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Need Structure | |
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Organismic Approach to Motivation | |
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Person-environment dialectic | |
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Organismic psychological needs | |
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Autonomy | |
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Supporting Autonomy | |
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Nurtures inner motivational resources | |
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Relies on informational language | |
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Promotes valuing | |
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Acknowledges and accepts negative affect | |
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Moment-to-Moment Autonomy Support | |
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Benefits of an Autonomy?Supportive Motivating Style | |
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Two Illustrations | |
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Competence | |
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Involving Competence | |
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Optimal challenge and flow | |
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Interdependency between challenge and feedback | |
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Failure tolerance | |
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Structure | |
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Supporting Competence | |
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Positive feedback | |
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Pleasure of optimal challenge and positive feedback | |
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Relatedness | |
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Involving Relatedness: Interaction With Others | |
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Satisfying Relatedness: Perception of a Social Bond | |
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Communal and exchange relationships | |
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Internalization | |
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Putting It All Together: Social Contexts That Involve and Satisfy | |
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Psychological Needs | |
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Engagement | |
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What Makes for a Good Day? | |
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Vitality | |
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Summary | |
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Readings for Further Study | |
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Intrinsic Motivation and Types of Extrinsic Motivation | |
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Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations | |
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Intrinsic Motivation | |
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Extrinsic Motivation | |
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Types of Extrinsic Motivation | |
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Incentives and Consequences | |
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Incentives | |
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What Is a Reinforcer? | |
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Consequences | |
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Positive reinforcers | |
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Negative reinforcers | |
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Punishers | |
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Does punishment work? | |
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Hidden Costs of Reward | |
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Expected and Tangible Rewards | |
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Implications | |
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Benefits of Incentives and Rewards | |
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Cognitive Evaluation Theory | |
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Two Examples of Controlling and Informational Events | |
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Praise | |
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Competition | |
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Self?Determination Theory | |
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Types of Extrinsic Motivation | |
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External regulation | |
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Introjected regulation | |
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Identified regulation | |
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Integrated regulation | |
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Benefits of Facilitating Intrinsic Motivation | |
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Persistence | |
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Creativity | |
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Conceptual understanding/High quality learning | |
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Optimal functioning and well-being | |
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Putting It All Together: Motivating Others on Uninteresting Activities | |
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Summary | |
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Readings for Further Study | |
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Social Needs | |
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Acquired Needs | |
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Quasi?Needs | |
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Social Needs | |
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How Social Needs Motivate Behavior | |
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Achievement | |
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Origins of the Need for Achievement | |
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Socialization influences | |
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Cognitive influences | |
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Developmental influences | |
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Atkinson's Model | |
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Tendency to approach success | |
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Tendency to avoid failure | |
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Combined approach and avoidance tendencies | |
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Achievement for the future | |
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Dynamics?of?Action Model | |
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Conditions That Involve and Satisfy the Need for Achievement | |
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Moderately difficult tasks | |
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Competition | |
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Entrepreneurship | |
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Achievement Goals | |
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Integrating Classical and Contemporary Approaches to | |
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Achievement Motivation | |
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Avoidance Motivation and Well-Being | |
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Implicit Theories | |
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Different implicit theories mean differentachievementgoals | |
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Meaning of effort | |
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Affiliation and Intimacy | |
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Conditions That Involve the Affiliation and Intimacy Needs | |
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Fear and anxiety | |
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Development of interpersonal relationships | |
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Maintaining interpersonal networks | |
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Satisfying the affiliation and intimacy needs | |
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Power | |
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Conditions That Involve and Satisfy the Need for Power | |
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Leadership and relationships | |
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Aggressiveness | |
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Influential occupations | |
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Prestige possessions | |
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Leadership Motive Pattern | |
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Effectiveness of U.S. presidents | |
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Summary | |
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Readings for Further Study | |
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Cognitions | |
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Goals | |
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Cognitive Perspective on Motivation | |
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Plans | |
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Corrective Motivation | |
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Discrepancy | |
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Two Types of Discrepancy | |
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Goals | |
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Performance | |
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Goal difficulty | |
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Goal specificity | |
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Difficult, Specific Goals Enhance Performance | |
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Feedback | |
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Goal Acceptance | |
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Criticisms | |
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Long-Term Goal Setting | |
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Personal Strivings | |
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Personal growth and subjective well-being | |
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Implementation Intentions | |
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Mental Simulations: Focusing on Action | |
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Formulating Implementation Intentions | |
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Goal Pursuit: Getting Started | |
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Goal Pursuit: Persisting and Finishing | |
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Self-Regulation | |
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Developing More Competent Self-Regulation. | |
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Summary | |
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Readings for Further Study | |
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Personal Control Beliefs | |
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Motivation to Exercise Personal Control | |
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Two Kinds of Expectancy | |
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Self-Efficacy | |
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Sources of Self-Efficacy | |
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Personal behavior history | |
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Vicarious experience | |
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Verbal persuasion | |
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Physiological state | |
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Self-Efficacy Effects on Behavior | |
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Choice: Selection of activities and environments | |
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Effort and persistence | |
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Thinking and decision-making | |
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Emotionality | |
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Empowerment | |
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Empowering People: Mastery Modeling Program | |
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Personal Control Beliefs | |
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Mastery Versus Helpless Motivational Orientations. | |
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Learned Helplessness | |
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Learning Helplessness | |
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Application to Humans | |
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Components | |
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Contingency | |
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Cognition | |
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Behavior | |
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Effects of Helplessness | |
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Motivational deficits | |
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Learning deficits | |
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Emotional deficits | |
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Helplessness and Depression | |
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Explanatory Style | |
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Pessimistic explanatory style | |
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Optimistic explanatory style | |
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Criticisms and Alternative Explanations | |
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Reactance Theory | |
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Reactance and Helplessness | |
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Putting It All Together: Hope | |
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Summary | |
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Readings for Further Study | |
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Chapter 10.The Self and Its Strivings | |
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The Self | |
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The Problem with Self-Esteem | |
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Self-Concept | |
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Self-Schemas | |
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Motivational Properties of Self-Schemas | |
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Consistent Self | |
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Possible Selves | |
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Cognitive Dissonance | |
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Dissonance-Arousing Situations | |
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Choice | |
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Insufficient justification | |
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Effort justification | |
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New information | |
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Motivational Processes Underlying Cognitive Dissonance | |
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Self-Perception Theory | |
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Identity | |
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Roles | |
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Affect Control Theory | |
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Energy and Direction | |
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Identity-confirming behaviors | |
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Identity-restoring behaviors | |
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Why People Self-Verify | |
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Agency | |
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Self as Action and Development from Within | |
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Differentiation and integration | |
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Internalization and the integrating self | |
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Self-Concordance | |
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Summary | |
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Readings for Further Study | |
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Emotions | |
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Nature of Emotion: Five Perennial Questions | |
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What Is an Emotion? | |
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Relationship Between Emotion and Motivation | |
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Emotion as motivation | |
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Emotion as a readout system | |
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What Causes an Emotion? | |
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Biology and Cognition | |
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Biological perspective | |
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Cognitive perspective | |
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Two-Systems View | |
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Chicken-and-Egg Problem | |
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Comprehensive Biology-Cognition Model | |
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How Many Emotions Are There? | |
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Biological Perspective | |
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Cognitive Perspective | |
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Reconciliation of the Numbers Issue | |
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Basic Emotions | |
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Fear | |
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Anger | |
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Disgust | |
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Sadness | |
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Threat and harm | |
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Joy | |
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Interest | |
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Motive involvement and satisfaction. | |
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What Good Are the Emotions? | |
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Coping Functions | |
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Social Functions | |
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Why We Have Emotions | |
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What Is the Difference between Emotion and Mood? | |
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Everyday Mood | |
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Positive Affect | |
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Conditions that make us feel good | |
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Benefits of feeling good | |
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Summary. | |
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Readings for Further Study | |
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Aspects of Emotion | |
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Biological Aspects of Emotion | |
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James-Lange Theory | |
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Contemporary Perspective | |
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Specific neural circuits | |
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Neural activation | |
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Differential Emotions Theory | |
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Facial Feedback Hypothesis | |
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Facial musculature | |
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Test of the facial feedback hypothesis | |
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Are facial expressions of emotion universal across cultures? | |
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Can we voluntarily control our emotions? | |
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Cognitive Aspects of Emotion | |
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Appraisal | |
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From perception to appraisal | |
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From appraisal to emotion. | |
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From felt emotion to action | |
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Complex Appraisal | |
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Primary appraisal | |
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Secondary appraisal | |
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Appraisal model of emotion | |
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Motivation | |
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Appraisal Process | |
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Emotion differentiation | |
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Emotion Knowledge | |
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Attributions | |
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Social and Cultural Aspects of Emotion | |
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Social Interaction | |
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Emotional Socialization | |
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Managing Emotions | |
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Inferring Identities from Emotional Displays. | |
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Summary | |
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Readings for Further Study | |
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Individual Differences | |
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Personality Characteristics | |
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Happiness | |
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Extraversion and Happiness | |
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Neuroticism and Suffering | |
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Extraverts Are Generally Happy, Neurotics Are Generally Unhappy | |
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Arousal | |
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Performance and Emotion | |
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Insufficient Stimulation and Underarousal | |
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Excessive Stimulation and Overarousal | |
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Credibility of the Inverted-U Hypothesis | |
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Sensation Seeking | |
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Search for new experiences | |
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Risk taking | |
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Biological basis | |
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Affect Intensity. | |
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Control | |
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Perceived Control | |
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Self-Confirming Cycles of High and Low Engagement = Desire for Control | |
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Establishing control | |
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Losing control. | |
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Summary. | |
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Readings for Further Study | |
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Unconscious Motivation | |
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Psychoanalytic Perspective | |
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Psychoanalytic Becomes Psychodynamic | |
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Dual-Instinct Theory | |
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Drive or Wish? | |
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Contemporary Psychodynamic Theory | |
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The Unconscious | |
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Freudian Unconscious | |
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Non-Freudian Unconscious. | |
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Psychodynamics | |
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Repression | |
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Suppression | |
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Do the Id and Ego Actually Exist? | |
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Ego Psychology | |
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Ego Development | |
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Ego Defense | |
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Ego Effectance. | |
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Object Relations Theory | |
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Criticisms. | |
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Summary. | |
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Readings for Further Study | |
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Growth Motivation and Positive Psychology | |
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Holism and Positive Psychology | |
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Holism | |
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Positive Psychology | |
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Self-Actualization | |
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Hierarchy of Human Needs | |
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Deficiency needs | |
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Growth needs | |
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Research on the need hierarchy | |
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Encouraging Growth | |
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Actualizing Tendency | |
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Emergence of the Self | |
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Conditions of Worth | |
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Congruence | |
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Fully Functioning Individual | |
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Causality Orientations | |
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Growth-Seeking Versus Validation-Seeking | |
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How Relationships Support the Actualizing Tendency | |
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Helping Others | |
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Freedom to Learn | |
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Self-Definition and Social Definition | |
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The Problem of Evil | |
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Positive Psychology and Mental Health | |
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Optimism | |
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Meaning | |
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Criticisms | |
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Summary | |
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Readings for Further Study | |
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Conclusion | |
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Conclusion | |
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Understanding and Applying Motivation | |
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Explaining Motivation: Why We Do What We Do | |
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Predicting Motivation: Identifying Antecedents | |
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Applying Motivation: Solving Problems | |
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Motivating Self and Others | |
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Motivating Self | |
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Motivating Others | |
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Feedback on How the Effort to Motivate Self and Others Is Going | |
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Designing Motivational Interventions | |
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Four Case Studies | |
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Four Success Stories | |
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Attaining personal goals | |
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Motivating students | |
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Suppressing hunger, reversing obesity | |
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Autonomy-supportive parenting | |
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References | |
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Name Index | |
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Subject Index | |
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Credits | |