Motivation and Emotion

Throughout this semester, we have learnt a lot about motivation and emotion gaining a greater understanding about what influences our motiva...

Growth psychology and humanistic psychology emphasises that we all have a higher motivation towards personal growth and development. It look...

Psychoanalytic and psychodynamic theories of motivation suggest that unconscious forces and drives motivate behaviour, and that conflict exi...

The 5 factor model of personality suggests that all the different traits which make up ones personality fall into 5 factors, which exist on ...

The biological James Lang Theory originally suggested that each emotion should correspond to a unique physiological reaction, for example a ...

What is emotion? I find it interesting that a word so often used and completely understood is so hard to define. Reeve (2009) suggest that e...

This week we discussed how the self and how personal control beliefs influence motivation. Firstly expectancy of our own capabilities and ab...