Motivation and emotion
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Congratulations, you've taken the first step in this Motivation and emotion unit!
Here's how to get started:
- Get an overview by reading about this unit
- Enrol
- Materials
- Read the unit outline
- Check that you have logged-in access to the unit's Canvas site
- Get access to the textbook
- Get hold of an audio headset (for virtual tutorials and multimedia recording)
- Assessment
- Read about the assessment.
- Put the due dates in your calendar:
- Topic development (9am Mon Week 5)
- Book chapter (9am Mon Week 12)
- Multimedia (9am Mon Week 14)
- Quizzes (9am Mon Week 15)
- Learn about Wikiversity and how to use it
- Create a Wikiversity account - choose a user name appropriate to your privacy requirements (can be based on your real name or a pseudonym).
- Practice editing in a sandbox.
- Describe a little about yourself and areas of interest on your Wikiversity user page.
- More information about using Wikiversity will be provided during lectures and tutorials (e.g., see Tutorial 1, but you can also teach yourselves and each other by exploring and experimenting. For more information, see Wikiversity - Help.
- Browse the previous book chapter topics. Think about what chapter topic you would like to contribute to the current book chapter table of contents. Ask questions, share your ideas, and get some feedback.
- Discuss this unit with others via:
- Canvas Discussion forum
- Wikiversity talk pages
- #emot19 hashtag on Twitter.
- For more assistance with this unit, see help.
- Discussion group: Post a message.
- Drop-in - see teaching staff
- By appointment: Contact teaching staff via email.
- Wikiversity: Try Help
This schedule shows how the modules, lectures, readings, tutorials, and assessment work together to help emerging scholars achieve the learning outcomes.
| Modules | Weeks | Lectures | Readings (Ch) |
Quizzes | Tutorials | Assessment skills |
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| 01 - Introduction | 01 | 01 - Introduction | UO, 01 | 01 | 01 - Introduction | Topic selection
Basic wiki editing |
| 02 | 02 - Historical development and assessment skills | 02, Assessment | 02 | |||
| 02 - Needs | 03 | 03 - Brain and physiological needs | 03, 04 | 03, 04 | 02 - Needs | Topic development
Collaboration |
| 04 | 04 - Extrinsic motivation and psychological needs | 05, 06 | 05, 06 | 02 - Needs | Topic development
Collaboration | |
| 03 - Goals and self | 05 | 05 - Implicit motives and goals | 07, 08 | 07, 08 | 03 - Goals and self | Topic development (due Week 5 Monday 9am) Literature searching |
| 06 | 06 - Mindsets, control, and the self | 09, 10, 11 | 09, 10, 11 | |||
| 04 - Emotion | 07 | 07 - Nature of emotion | 12 | 12 | 04 - Emotion | Images
Tables |
| - | 08 | Mid-semester break | - | - | - | |
| 04 - Emotion | 09 | 08 - Aspects of emotion | 13 | 13 | 04 - Emotion | Images
Tables |
| 05 - Individual emotions | 10 | 09 - Individual emotions | 14 | 14 | 05 - Individual emotions | Peer reviewing
Wiki-blitz |
| 11 | 10 - Unconscious motivation | 16 | 16 | 05 - Individual emotions | ||
| 06 - Growth and interventions | 12 | 11 - Growth psychology | 15 | 15 | 06 - Growth psychology | Book chapter (due Week 12 Monday 9am) Multimedia development Recording and sharing |
| 13 | 12 - Interventions and review | 17 | 17 | |||
| - | 14 | - | - | - | - | Multimedia presentation (due Monday 9am) |
| - | 15 | - | - | - | - | Quizzes (due Monday 9am) |
This table summarises the assessment item weightings and due dates. Click the assessment items for detailed guidelines.
| Item | Weighting | Due | Description | Expected time involved |
| Topic development | 5% | 09:00 AM Mon Week 05 | This early assessment exercise develops the topic and skills required for preparing the Book Chapter assessment exercise. Requirements: Register a Wikiversity account, sign up to an approved topic, create a Wikiversity user page, share a chapter plan which outlines major sections and key points and includes at least one relevant, reusable image, comment on the development of at least one another book chapter, and summarise this contribution on your Wikiversity user page. | ~5 hours: ~1 hour to learn "how", 2 hours research, 2 hours preparation. |
| Book chapter | 45% | 09:00 AM Mon Week 12 | Author an online book chapter up to 4,000 words about a unique, specific motivation or emotion topic. Topics must be approved by the unit convener. Includes a social contribution component. | ~45 hours: ~7 hours to learn "how", 18 hours research, 20 hours preparation. |
| Multimedia | 20% | 09:00 AM Mon Week 14 | Record and share an online multimedia presentation up to 3 minutes long about a unique, specific motivation or emotion topic, focusing on key problem(s) and answer(s) provided by psychological science. Address the same topic as covered in the book chapter. | ~10 hours: 2 hours to learn "how", 6 hours preparation, 2 hours to record & finalise. |
| Quizzes | 30% | 09:00 AM Mon Week 15 | 17 equally-weighted 10-item online multiple-choice quizzes. One quiz per textbook chapter. | ~90 hours: 12 lectures (x 2 hours each; 24 hours), 6 tutorials (x 2 hours each; 12 hours), 17 chapters (x ~3 hours each; 48 hours) and 6 hours completing the quizzes. |
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Understanding and improving our motivational and emotional lives
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There are 21 days 5 hours left before chapters are due. (refresh) This assessment exercise is explained in Lecture 01, 02 and Tutorial 01. Authors, please consult the detailed topic development and author guidelines. |
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These pages are undergoing a massive transformation. Over 170 emerging academics who are studying Motivation and emotion at the University of Canberra are each authoring a freely available online book chapter about how some aspect of our motivational and emotional lives can be better understood and improved. Feel free to comment or improve on the work so far. |
Why do we do
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Why do we feel
the way we feel? |
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