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Understanding Motivation and Emotion

by Johnmarshall Reeve

7th Edition

Publisher: Wiley

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Print ISBN9781119367604
eText ISBN9781119367659
PublisherWiley
Publishing Year2018
Edition7th Edition
LanguageEnglish
Pages560

Understanding Motivation and Emotion, 7th Edition, explores the foundations of motivation, emotional processes, and their influence on learning, performance, and personal well-being.

This textbook examines core themes in motivational science, including physiological and psychological needs, goal setting and striving, and biological and cognitive aspects of emotion. It also illustrates how motivational and emotional systems guide attention and assist human functioning.

Designed to translate theory into practice, the volume outlines interventions suitable for schools, workplaces, and healthcare settings. Each chapter addresses a specific concern and concludes with recommended readings centered on its core theme.

Table of Contents

  1. Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION

    • • What Is Motivation? Why Is It Important?
    • • Motivational Science
    • • Two Perennial Questions
    • • Subject Matter
    • • Expressions of Motivation
    • • Framework to Understand Motivation and Emotion
    • • Ten Unifying Themes
    • • Summary
  2. Chapter 2: MOTIVATION AND EMOTION IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

    • • Philosophical Origins of Motivational Concepts
    • • Grand Theories
    • • Rise of the Mini-Theories
    • • Contemporary Era
    • • The 1990s Reemergence of Motivation Study
    • • Brief History of Emotion Study
    • • Conclusion
    • • Summary
    • • Readings for Further Study
  3. Chapter 3: THE MOTIVATED AND EMOTIONAL BRAIN

    • • Motivation, Emotion, and Neuroscience
    • • Day-to-Day Events Activate Specific Brain Structures
    • • Activated Brain Structures Generate Specific Motivations and Emotions
    • • Neural Basis of Motivation and Emotion
    • • Individual Brain Structures Involved in Motivation and Emotion
    • • Hormones
    • • Summary
    • • Readings for Further Study
  4. Chapter 4: PHYSIOLOGICAL NEEDS

    • • Need
    • • Three Types of Needs
    • • Fundamentals of Regulation
    • • Thirst
    • • Hunger
    • • Sex
    • • Summary
    • • Readings for Further Study
  5. Chapter 5: EXTRINSIC MOTIVATION AND INTERNALIZATION

    • • Extrinsic Motivation
    • • Incentives and Consequences
    • • Hidden Costs of Reward
    • • Intrinsic Motivation versus Extrinsic Motivation
    • • Benefits of Extrinsic Motivation
    • • Cognitive Evaluation Theory
    • • Two Examples of Controlling and Informational Events
    • • Types of Extrinsic Motivation
    • • Motivating Others on Uninteresting Activities
    • • Amotivation
    • • Summary
    • • Readings for Further Study
  6. Chapter 6: PSYCHOLOGICAL NEEDS

    • • Psychological Needs
    • • Organismic Psychological Needs
    • • Benefits of Need Satisfaction
    • • Need Frustration
    • • Autonomy
    • • Competence
    • • Relatedness
    • • Putting it All Together: Relationships and Social Contexts that Support Psychological Need Satisfaction
    • • Engagement
    • • What Makes for a Good Day?
    • • Vitality
    • • Summary
    • • Readings for Further Study
  7. Chapter 7: IMPLICIT MOTIVES

    • • Implicit Motives
    • • Acquired Needs
    • • Social Needs
    • • How Implicit Motives, as Acquired Psychological Needs, Motivate Behavior
    • • Achievement
    • • Affiliation
    • • Power
    • • Four Additional Social Needs
    • • Summary
    • • Readings for Further Study
  8. Chapter 8: GOAL SETTING AND GOAL STRIVING

    • • Cognitive Springs to Action
    • • Plans
    • • Corrective Motivation
    • • Discrepancy
    • • Goal Setting
    • • Long-Term Goal Setting
    • • From Where Do Goals Come?
    • • Goal Striving
    • • Goal Disengagement
    • • Summary
    • • Readings for Further Study
  9. Chapter 9: MINDSETS

    • • Mindset
    • • Mindset 1: Deliberative–Implemental
    • • Mindset 2: Promotion–Prevention
    • • Mindset 3: Growth-Fixed
    • • Different Fixed-Growth Mindsets Lead to Different Achievement Goals
    • • Achievement Goals
    • • Cognitive Dissonance
    • • Summary
    • • Readings for Further Study
  10. Chapter 10: PERSONAL CONTROL BELIEFS

    • • Motivation to Exercise Personal Control
    • • Two Kinds of Expectancy
    • • Perceived Control: Self, Action, and Control
    • • Coping with Failure
    • • Self-Efficacy
    • • Empowerment
    • • Mastery Beliefs
    • • Learned Helplessness
    • • Reactance Theory
    • • Expectancy–Value Model
    • • Summary
    • • Readings for Further Study
  11. Chapter 11: THE SELF AND ITS STRIVINGS

    • • Two Views of Self
    • • The Problem with Self-Esteem
    • • Self-Concept
    • • Possible Selves
    • • Identity
    • • Agency
    • • Self-Regulation
    • • Self-Control
    • • Summary
    • • Readings for Further Study
  12. Chapter 12: NATURE OF EMOTION: SIX PERENNIAL QUESTIONS

    • • Six Perennial Questions
    • • What is an Emotion?
    • • What Causes an Emotion?
    • • What Ends an Emotion?
    • • How Many Emotions are There?
    • • What Good are the Emotions?
    • • Can We Control Our Emotions?
    • • What is the Difference Between Emotion and Mood?
    • • Summary
    • • Readings for Further Study
  13. Chapter 13: ASPECTS OF EMOTION

    • • Biological Aspects of Emotion
    • • Cognitive Aspects of Emotion
    • • Social Aspects of Emotion
    • • Summary
    • • Readings for Further Study
  14. Chapter 14: INDIVIDUAL EMOTIONS

    • • Basic Emotions
    • • Self-Conscious Emotions
    • • Cognitively Complex Emotions
    • • Summary
    • • Readings for Further Study
  15. Chapter 15: GROWTH MOTIVATION AND POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

    • • Holism and Positive Psychology
    • • Self-Actualization
    • • Actualizing Tendency
    • • Emergence of the Self
    • • Organismic Integration
    • • Humanistic Motivational Phenomena
    • • Positive Psychology
    • • Interventions
    • • Criticisms
    • • Summary
    • • Readings for Further Study
  16. Chapter 16: UNCONSCIOUS MOTIVATION

    • • Psychodynamic Perspective
    • • The Unconscious
    • • Psychodynamics
    • • Ego Psychology
    • • Object Relations Theory
    • • Criticisms
    • • Summary
    • • Readings for Further Study
  17. Chapter 17: INTERVENTIONS

    • • Applying Principles of Motivation and Emotion
    • • Explaining Motivation and Emotion
    • • Predicting Motivation and Emotion
    • • Solving Motivational and Emotional Problems
    • • Practice Problems
    • • Three State-of-the-Art Interventions
    • • Wisdom Gained from a Scientific Study of Motivation and Emotion

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