Motivation and emotion

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Motivation and emotion - Getting started

Congratulations, you've taken the first step in this Motivation and emotion unit!

Here's how to get started:

1. Get an overview by reading about this unit
2. Enrol
   1. Enrol in the unit
   2. Enrol in a tutorial
   3. Check timetable 2020 for lecture and tutorial times and locations
   4. Put the schedule into your calendar.
3. Materials
   1. Read the unit outline
   2. Check that you have logged-in access to the unit's UCLearn site
   3. Get access to the textbook
   4. Get hold of an audio headset (for virtual tutorials and multimedia recording)
4. Assessment
   1. Read about the assessment.
   2. Put the due dates in your calendar:
      1. Topic development (9am Mon Week 5)
      2. Book chapter (9am Mon Week 12)
      3. Multimedia (9am Mon Week 14)
      4. Quizzes (9am Mon Week 15)
5. 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 1, but you can also teach yourselves and each other by exploring and experimenting. For more information, see Wikiversity - Help.
6. 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.
7. Discuss this unit with others via:
   1. UCLearn Discussion forum
   2. Wikiversity talk pages
   3. #emot20 hashtag on Twitter.
8. For more assistance with this unit, see help.

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Schedule: Lectures - Tutorials

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
01 - Introduction	01	01 - Introduction	UO, 01	01	01 - Topic selection	Topic selection
	02	02 - Historical development and assessment skills	02, Assessment	02	02 - Wiki editing	Basic wiki editing
02 - Needs	03	03 - Brain and physiological needs	03, 04	03, 04	03 - Physiological needs	Topic development
	04	04 - Extrinsic motivation and psychological needs	05, 06	05, 06	04 - Psychological needs	Collaboration
03 - Goals and self	05	05 - Implicit motives and goals	07, 08	07, 08	05 - Goals	Topic development (due Week 5 Monday 9am)
	06	06 - Mindsets, control, and the self	09, 10, 11	09, 10, 11	06 - Self	Literature searching
04 - Emotion	07	07 - Nature of emotion	12	12	07 - Core emotions	Images
	08	Mid-semester break	-		-	-
	09	08 - Aspects of emotion	13	13	08 - Measuring emotion	Tables
05 - Individual emotions	10	09 - Individual emotions	14	14	09 - 20 emotions	Peer reviewing
	11	10 - Unconscious motivation	16	16	10 - Time perspective	Wiki-blitz
06 - Growth	12	11 - Growth psychology	15	15	11 - Self-actualisation	Book chapter (due Week 12 Monday 9am) Multimedia development
	13	12 - Interventions and review	17	17	12 - Review	Multimedia recording and sharing
-	14	-	-	-	-	Multimedia presentation (due Monday 9am)
-	15	-	-	-	-	Quizzes (due Monday 9am)

Assessment: Topic - Chapter - Multimedia - Quizzes

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, 10-minute, multiple-choice, online 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.

Book 2020

Motivation and emotion: Understanding and improving our motivational and emotional lives using psychological science (2020)

Author guidelines

chapters are due has already ended. () This assessment exercise is explained in Lecture 01, 02 and Tutorial 01 and 02. Authors, please consult the detailed topic development and author guidelines.

For readers

These pages are undergoing a massive transformation. Over 140 emerging scholars 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 what we do?

Welcome to Motivation and Emotion

Why do we feel the way we feel?

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