Motivation: Biological, Psychological, and Environmental

ISBN-13: 9781032065182 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 434 str.

Lambert Deckers

Opis

This textbook provides a complete overview of motivation and emotion, using an overarching organizational scheme of how biological, psychological, and environmental sources become motivation—the inducement of behavior, feelings, and cognition.

Spis treści

1. Introduction to Motivation and Emotion  2. Evolutionary Antecedents of Motivation  3. Addictions and Addictive Behaviors  4. Homeostasis: Temperature, Thirst, Hunger, and Eating  5. Behavior, Arousal, and Affective Valence  6. Stress, Coping, and Health  7. Psychological Needs and Motives  8. Personality and Motivation  9. Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation  10. Goal Motivation  11. Emotions and Moods  12. Emotions as Motives 

O autorze

Lambert Deckers is professor emeritus of psychological science at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. He taught psychology courses for 45 years, with 40 years devoted to teaching a course in motivation and emotion. He also taught courses in the psychology of learning, and history and systems of psychology. Professor Deckers is a charter member of the Association for Psychological Science and a member of the Society for the Science of Motivation.