Motivation and Emotion

Recommended Prerequisites

Good oral and written skills in the English language.

Teaching Methods

Lectures and interactive methods, presentation and discussion of assignments carried out by students, discussion around critical motivational problems identified in everyday life, contact with research projects carried out in laboratory context.

Learning Outcomes

- Identification of the main concepts and constructs in motivation ;

- Knowledge of the main contemporary conceptual grids in the study of motivation and emotion;

- Understanding the main biological, environmental and psychological triggers of the motivational processes;

- Identification of the core cognitive-emotional factors involved in the initiation, direction and regulation of behaviour;

- Understanding the physiological, cognitive-affective, and expressive components of emotions;

- Understanding the impact of the motivational processes involved in the behavioural regulation;

- Acquisition of critical psychological intervention skills via the understanding of the practical implications resulting from the impact of the motivational processes on behaviour

- Acquisition of communication skills that enable students to carry out oral and written presentations of scientific and technical papers.

- Development of competences in literature review and in the writing of a scientific paper.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1- Introduction to the study of motivation and emotion – definitions, concepts and assessment procedures;

2- Historical perspective on the study of human motivation and emotion;

3- The brain: motivation and emotion

4- The organismic approach to the study of human motivation and reflection around the notions of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation

4.1.Discussion of the self-determination theory as an integrative contemporary model contemplating the main features of an organismic approach to motivation

4.2. The nutrition of the needs in nuclear life contexts

5- The cognitive approach to the study of human motivation

5.1-The study of goal-directed behavior

5.2-The study of personal control beliefs and mindsets

5.3-Cognitive-motivational processes and forms of intervention

6- The nature and the dimensions of emotions

7- Emotion and social relations

8- Emotion and the cultural context

9- Emotion and personality

10. Emotion and intervention programs.

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria Paula Barbas de Albuquerque Paixão

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Laboratory work or Field work: 10.0%
Frequency: 90.0%

Bibliography

Adolphs, R., & Anderson, D. (2018). The Neuroscience of Emotion: A New Synthesis. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press. Retrieved January 22, 2020, from www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvc77b1j

Barrett, L. F. (2017). How emotions are made: The secret life of the brain. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Elliot, A. (Ed.)(2008). Handbook of Approach and Avoidance Motivation. Hove: Psychology

Ford, M. (1992). Motivating Humans- Goals, Emotions and Personal Agency Beliefs. Newbury Park: Sage Publications.

Lewis, M., Haviland-Jones, J. & Barrett, L. (2008). Handbook of Emotions (3rd edition). New York: The Guilford Press.

Oattley, K., Keltner, D. & Jenkins, J. M. (2018). Understanding Emotions (3rd edition). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

Reeve, J. (2018). Understanding Motivation and Emotion (7th edition). USA: John Wiley & Sons

Ryan, R. (Ed) (2012). The Oxford Handbook of Human Motivation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.