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PSY 355 Entire Course   FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.psy355edu.com   PSY 355 Week 1
Discussion Question 1 PSY 355 Week 1 Discussion
Question 2 PSY 355 Week 1 DQ 3 PSY 355 Week 1 DQ
4 PSY 355 week 1 Individual Assignment Sources of
Motivation Paper (2 Papers) PSY 355 Week 2
Discussion Question 1 PSY 355 Week 2 Discussion
Question 2 PSY 355 Week 2 DQ 3 PSY 355 Week 2 DQ
4 PSY 355 Week 2 Team Assignment Motivation
Theories Presentation PSY 355 Week 3 Discussion
Question 1 PSY 355 Week 3 Discussion Question 2
PSY 355 Week 3 DQ 3 PSY 355 Week 3 DQ 4 PSY 355
Week 3 Individual Assignment Motivation and the
Brain Paper PSY 355 Week 4 Discussion Question 1 .
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PSY 355 Week 1 Discussion Question 1   FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.psy355edu.com   Is it possible
to motivate a student to obtain an A grade if
he orshe does not value an A grade more than a
C grade? Why or why not?
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PSY 355 Week 1 Discussion Question 2   FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.psy355edu.com   Please list
four things that bring you pleasure, and four
thingsthat bring you pain. Which do you,
personally, think motivates youmore, trying to
obtain the pleasure, or trying to avoid the pain?
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PSY 355 Week 1 DQ 3   FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.psy355edu.com   1 - What is motivation?
2 - Does perception affect motivation? Why or why
not? 1 - What are the major sources of
motivation? 2 - Which source affects you most?
Why? Do you think this is something that is
'hard-wired' or learned? 3 - Do you think it is
possible to change which source affects you most?
1 - What is emotion? 2 - In what types of social
settings might an individual observe the
following emotions sadness, anger, disgust,
nervousness, and happiness?
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PSY 355 Week 1 DQ 4   FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.psy355edu.com   Do internal and
external sources need to be complementary for
motivation to occur? For example, is it possible
to motivate a student to obtain an A grade if he
or she does not value an A grade more than a C
grade? Explain your answer.
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PSY 355 Week 1 Individual Assignment Sources of
Motivation Paper (2 Papers)   FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.psy355edu.com   This Tutorial contains
2 Different Papers Sources of Motivation Paper
Prepare a 700 to 900-word paper in which you
examine the concept of motivation. As a part of
your examination be sure to address the following
items In your own words, define motivation.
Identify at least two sources of motivation.
Explain the relationship between motivation and
behavior. Examine how motivation is exhibited in
behavior.
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PSY 355 Week 2 Discussion Question 1   FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.psy355edu.com   Weve had some
great discussions during Week 1 regarding the
motivating power of fear. Many of you, in fact,
identified fear of pain as being a greater
motivator for you than is the attainment of that
which brings you pleasure. Is it possible,
though, that fear is also the primary motivator
in the attainment of pleasure?
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PSY 355 Week 2 Discussion Question 2   FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.psy355edu.com   Do you think
that innate factors (neurobiological,
genetic,homeostatic, etc.) have more of an
influence on motivation than learned(environmental
) factors, or are learned factors the dominant
force? Please provide examples or illustrations
to support your response.
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PSY 355 Week 2 DQ 3   FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.psy355edu.com   1 - What is a person's
mate value? 2 - Evaluate and compute your mate
value and that of your spouse/partner (current or
most recent). Are you surprised by the results?
What do the results mean (for you, your life,
your relationships, etc.)? 3 - Does a person's
mate value have any evolutionary significance or
is it an arbitrary value determined solely by
society? Explain! 1 - What are universal motives?
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PSY 355 Week 2 DQ 4   FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.psy355edu.com   Is it possible for
someone to become a chocoholic--a person addicted
to chocolate? Why or why not? Alcohol and
nicotine are 2 legal drugs. In some states,
marijuana (cannabis) is also legal. 1 - What
are the pros and cons of legalizing other drugs
(such as marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine,
heroin, 'designer drugs', etc.)? 2 - Do you
believe rates of drug use would change if some of
these drugs were made legal?
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PSY 355 Week 2 Team Assignment Motivation
Theories Presentation   FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.psy355edu.com   Select at least 2
theories concerning human motivation. Obtain
faculty approval of your selected theories prior
to beginning this assignment. Prepare a 12 slide
presentation (using Microsoft PowerPoint,
Prezi, Glogster, or any other presentation
software program) in which you analyze your
selected motivational theories (Note 12
content slides are required, plus a 'title' slide
a 'reference' slide). Submit detailed speaker
notes with your presentation that would allow any
presenter to use what you develop.
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PSY 355 Week 3 Discussion Question 1   FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.psy355edu.com   To be
clinically diagnosed as addicted to a chemical
substance or abehavior, a person must demonstrate
continued involvement with thesubstance or
activity even though that person has experienced
or isaware of detrimental consequences to his or
her job, relationships,financial security, or
health. With this in mind, please answer
thefollowing questions 1) To what behavior or
substance (e.g., favorite food, hobby,activity)
might you be able to be diagnosed as addicted?
Pleaseclearly describe the behavior or substance,
and explain your reasoningfor the diagnosis.
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PSY 355 Week 3 Discussion Question 2   FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.psy355edu.com   Personality
typology is one means of trying to understand why
andpredict how people are motivated to behave as
they do. In this weeksreadings, you are exposed
to several theories of personality, includingthe
5-Factor Model, the Sensation Seeking personality
model, EysencksThree Factor Model, as well as
the Adlerian personality model of the 1Priority
(posted in the Course Materials folder). Another
widely usedmodel is the Jung Typology (often
tested with the Myers-Briggs, orKiersey
Personality Inventories).
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PSY 355 Week 3 DQ 3   FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.psy355edu.com   What are the
similarities and differences between
physiological needs and psychological needs? 2a -
Do you think you can raise your self-esteem by
thinking about your successes in your domains of
contingent self-worth? 2b - Can you lower your
self-esteem by thinking about your failures in
those areas? 2c - What about the effects of
thinking about successes and failures in domains
that are not important to you?
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PSY 355 Week 3 DQ 4   FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.psy355edu.com   How do psychological
needs and personality traits differ in the manner
they motivate behavior? Explain your answer.
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PSY 355 Week 3 Individual Assignment Motivation
and the Brain Paper   FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.psy355edu.com   Select 1 of the
following topics as the basis for this paper
Eating healthy Exercising Quitting smoking
Quitting drinking Refraining from using drugs
Write a 1,000 word paper in which you analyze
the brain structures functions associated with
the motivation to engage in your selected
behavior. Evaluate the influence of extrinsic
intrinsic factors, including heredity the
environment, on the motivation.
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PSY 355 Week 4 Discussion Question 1   FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.psy355edu.com   One common
problem of motivation is procrastination, or
putting off until the very last moment doing what
is necessary to attain ones goals, which is
discussed briefly in chapters seven and 10 of the
course text. According to Clayton Taylor-Ladd
(1996-2007), the two basic types of
procrastinators are The relaxed type places
little importance on the goal, so leaves it to be
done until there is nothing better to do in an
effort to not get stressed over the
"insignificant, but rather doing.
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PSY 355 Week 4 Discussion Question 2   FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.psy355edu.com   We know that
ones emotions affect ones facial muscles to
produce theexpressions we understand as
happiness, sadness, anger, fear,frustration, etc.
Is it also true, though that, aside from
regulatingintensity of an existing emotion, the
muscles in ones face can createor change ones
emotions? Before answering this DQ, please
conduct all four steps of thefollowing experiment.
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PSY 355 Week 4 DQ 3   FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.psy355edu.com   If increased arousal
results in increased performance, why does it not
also lead to a more efficient performance? In
your response, please include an example that
demonstrates this from your own life. 1 - Why do
you listen to music? Do any of these reasons
include energization, relaxation, and mood
alteration?
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PSY 355 Week 4 DQ 4   FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.psy355edu.com   1 - What are some
examples of life stressors? 2 - In what ways do
individuals differ in their appraisal of and
ability to cope with life stressors? 3 - Are
there certain personality traits that serve to
buffer individuals against stressors and stress?
Why or why not? 1 - What effect does stress have
on the human body? 2 - How can stress be managed?
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PSY 355 Week 4 Individual Assignment Arousal,
Behavior, Stress, and Affect Worksheet   FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.psy355edu.com   Complete the
Material Arousal, Behavior, Stress, and Affect
Worksheet.Click the Assignment Files tab to
submit your assignment.
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PSY 355 Week 5 Discussion Question 1   FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.psy355edu.com   As you read
last week, stress is not only a great motivator,
on along-term or redundant basis, it is also
responsible for a plethora ofphysical illnesses
ranging from the common cold, to allergic
reactions,to heart disease and even cancer. It
is also a major contributor tomany psychological
disorders including depression, anxiety,
cognitivedisruption and learning disorders.
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PSY 355 Week 5 DQ 3   FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.psy355edu.com   Do you find yourself
obeying the principle of least effort or the law
of less work? For example, do you drive instead
of walk, take the elevator instead of stairs, eat
fast-food rather than cook, or take an easy
elective course rather than a challenging one?
Why do you think this is so? Who will be more
successful in life a person with many
motivational resources but few intellectual
resources or a person with few motivational
resources and many intellectual resources?
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PSY 355 Week 5 DQ 4   FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.psy355edu.com   Part 1 1 - When you
smile in greeting a friend, it is because you are
happy to see him/her, or is it simply a greeting
without any feeling? 2 - What governs your
facial expressions? Is it your felt emotions,
your social motives, the person you are with, or
display rules in general? According to the
appraisal tendency hypothesis, emotions can
influence a person's judgments and decisions.
Has this ever happened to you?
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PSY 355 Week 5 Team Assignment Emotions
Paper   FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.psy355edu.com  
Write a 1,000 word paper in which you analyze
the function of emotions as motive. Address the
following items in your analysis Examine at
least 2 historical theories of emotion arousal
as they relate to human motivation. Analyze at
least 2 research methods used for uncovering
basic emotions. Discuss the facial feedback
hypothesis, particularly the event-appraisal-emoti
on sequence. Include at least 3 references from
scholarly, peer-reviewed sources (in addition to
the course textbook other course reading
materials).
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