Motivation and emotion/Lectures/Psychological needs and implicit motives

Lecture XX: Psychological needs and implicit motives
This is the fourth lecture for the motivation and emotion unit of study.

Overview

This lecture discusses human motivation in terms of psychological needs and implicit motives.

Images

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  Challenge vs. skill
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  Maslow's hierarchy of needs

Multimedia

This video explains the psychological ingredients for harnessing motivation in the workplace:

• Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation (RSA Animate) (11 min)

This video provides an example of one of the main type of social need - the need for power:

• BBC Interview with Rupert Murdoch (YouTube, 1968) (6 min)

Readings

• Chapter 06: Psychological needs (Reeve, 2015)
• Chapter 07: Implicit motives (Reeve, 2015)

Slides

• Lecture slides (Slideshare)
• 2016 handouts:
  • Download 6 slides to a page:
  • Download 3 slides to a page:

See also

• Brain and physiological needs (Previous lecture)
• Extrinsic motivation and goal-setting (Next lecture)
• Tutorial 2: Needs

External links

• Self-Determination Theory (SDT)
• Renowned Psychologist on How to Generate Intrinsic Motivation - Ed Deci on Inside Quest (Inside Quest, Youtube, 37:00 mins)
• Ed Deci - Inside Questions (Inside Quest, Youtube, 12:33 mins)