Motivation and emotion

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Getting started

Welcome aboard the good ship "motivation and emotion"!

Congratulations on taking the first step .

Here's how to get started:

1. Get an overview:
   1. About this unit
   2. Unit outline
2. Enrol in
   1. the unit
   2. a tutorial
3. Check the timetable (for lectures and tutorials) and put the schedule in your calendar
4. Materials - get access to:
   1. The textbook
   2. An audio headset (with headphones and microphone) is recommended for:
      1. recording the multimedia presentation assessment exercise
      2. participating in online virtual tutorials
5. Assessment
   1. Check out the assessment and note the due dates
   2. Learn about Wikiversity and how to use it
      1. Create a Wikiversity account - choose a user name appropriate to your privacy requirements (can be based on your real name or a pseudonym).
      2. Practice editing in a sandbox.
      3. Describe a little about yourself and areas of interest on your Wikiversity user page.
      4. More information about using Wikiversity will be provided during lectures and tutorials (e.g., see Tutorial 01, but you can also teach yourself by exploring and experimenting). For more info, see Wikiversity - Help.
   3. Browse the previous book chapter topics. Think about what chapter topic you would like to contribute to the current book chapter table of contents.
6. Discuss with others via:
   1. UCLearn Discussion
   2. Wikiversity talk pages
   3. #emot21 hashtag on Twitter
7. For more assistance, see support

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Schedule - Lectures - Tutorials

Module	Week	Lecture	Readings (Ch)	Quizzes	Tutorial	Assessment
01 - Introduction	01	01 - Introduction	UO, 01	01	01 - Topic selection	-
	02	02 - Historical development and assessment skills	02, Assessment	02	02 - Wiki editing	-
02 - Needs	03	03 - Brain and physiological needs	03, 04	03, 04	03 - Physiological needs	-
	04	04 - Extrinsic motivation and psychological needs	05, 06	05, 06	04 - Psychological needs	-
03 - Goals and self	05	05 - Implicit motives and goals	07, 08	07, 08	05 - Functionalist theory and self-tracking	Topic development (due Monday 9am)
	06	06 - Mindsets, control, and the self	09, 10, 11	09, 10, 11	06 - Learned optimism	-
04 - Emotion	07	07 - Nature of emotion	12	12	07 - Core emotions	-
	08	Mid-semester break	-	-	-	-
	09	08 - Aspects of emotion	13	13	08 - Measuring emotion	-
05 - Individual emotions	10	09 - Individual emotions	14	14	09 - 20 emotions	-
	11	10 - Unconscious motivation	16	16	10 - Time perspective	-
06 - Growth	12	11 - Growth psychology	15	15	11 - Positive psychology	Book chapter (due Monday 9am)
	13	12 - Interventions and review	17	17	12 - Review	-
-	14	-	-	-	-	Multimedia presentation (due Monday 9am)
-	15	-	-	-	-	Quizzes (due Monday 9am)

Assessment - Topic - Chapter - Multimedia - Quizzes

This page overviews the motivation and emotion assessment items, weight, and due dates.

As a Level 3, final semester unit, the major project (topic development, book chapter, multimedia presentation) provides a scaffolded "capstone" experience, allowing students to bring together and demonstrate their knowledge and skills to produce useful real-world resources. Consider adding this work to your e-portfolio.

Click the assessment item names in the table below for detailed guidelines.

Item	Weight	Due	Description	Expected time involved (total 150 hours)
Topic development	5%	Week 05 Mon 9am 30 Aug 2021	This early assessment exercise builds skills needed for the Book Chapter assessment exercise by developing a plan for the chapter and getting feedback. To do this: Register a Wikiversity account, sign up to an approved topic, create a Wikiversity user page, share a chapter plan (consisting of headings and key points, including at least one relevant image), and provide feedback on the development of at least one another book chapter with this social contribution summarised on your Wikiversity user page.	5 hours: 1 hour to learn "how", 2 hours research, 2 hours preparation.
Book chapter	40%	Week 12 Mon 9am 18 Oct 2021	Author an online book chapter up to 4,000 words about a unique 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%	Week 14 Mon 9am 1 Nov 2021	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	35%	Week 15 Mon 9am 8 Nov 2021	17 equally-weighted 10-item, 10-minute, multiple-choice, online quizzes. One quiz per textbook chapter.	90 hours: 24 hours lectures (12 x 2 hours each), 12 hours tutorials (12 x 1 hour each), 51 hours reading (17 chapters x 3 hours each), 3 hours completing the quizzes (17 x 10 mins each).

Book - 2021

Motivation and emotion: Understanding and improving our motivational and emotional lives using psychological science (2021)

Guidelines

Available topics are followed by MyUserName. To sign up to a topic: Register a Wikiversity account Click "Edit source" (or "Edit") Replace [[User:MyUserName|MyUserName]] with your Wikiversity username e.g., [[User:Jtneill|Jtneill]] Click "Publish" Or email the unit convener to negotiate a topic. This assessment exercise is explained in Lecture 01 and 02 and Tutorial 01 and 02. Will more topics be added? Yes, but you are also encouraged to propose topics. To get some ideas, look through chapters written in previous years and see these links. Authors, please consult the detailed topic development and book chapter guidelines. There are 25 days 3 hours left before chapters are due. ()

For readers

These pages are undergoing a massive transformation. Approx. 150 emerging scholars who are studying motivation and emotion at the University of Canberra will each author 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 contribute.

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