Motivation and emotion/Lectures/Historical development and assessment skills

Lecture 02: Historical development and assessment skills
This is the second lecture for the motivation and emotion unit of study.

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This lecture:

Provides a historical context to the development of psychological motivation and emotion knowledge
Explains the assessment, including how to:
- use Wikiversity for the topic development and book chapter assessment exercises and
- develop a multimedia recording
- complete the quizzes
- access support for completing the assessment exercises

Take-home messages:

Motivation and emotion has evolved from grand theories to mini-theories which exhibit some common themes
A wiki is the simplest collaborative platform - anyone can edit to share knowledge

Motivation in historical perspective

Assessment task skills

See examples of high quality major project submissions for:

Instinct theory, the power of motivation (CrashCourse Psychology #17, YouTube; 2:09 mins): Introduces motivation by explaining instinct theory
Drive theory, the power of motivation (CrashCourse Psychology #17, YouTube; 2:09 mins): Introduces motivation by explaining drive theory
A vision of students today (YouTube; 4:44 mins): Explores some reasons behind why are approaching the assessment this way
Wikis in plain English (Commoncraft; 3:53 mins) explains the concept of a wiki and how it works
Wikipedia - An investment for your future; your children's future (YouTube; 4:10 mins) explains the purpose of Wikipedia