In time for Thursday's 1/12 class, please read the following link: http://www.psychologicalscience.com/kim_maclin/2010/01/i-learned-it-at-the-movies.html 

as well as the 3 resource links at the bottom of that article.

Review the book options at this link:

http://www.psychologicalscience.com/motivation_emotion/2010/01/books-general-readership.html

There are fiction and non-fiction options, short books, longer books. You should choose a book that you are genuinely interested in, and consider this an opportunity to read something that you enjoy (even though it is also for a class). Browse the informational links (provided by Amazon) to decide on your book.

Many of these books are available at the UNI library and our local Cedar Falls and Waterloo Public Libraries. You may also purchase them at a local book seller like Barnes and Noble in Waterloo, or online at Amazon or other online merchants. Amazon also has digital options for your IPhone, Nook, or Kindle.

You should order/get your book THIS WEEK, regardless of your chosen deadline.

As a comment to this post, tell me the title of the book you have chosen and your selected due date. Look at the course calendar and choose a Tuesday or Thursday during the semester. You may not choose a date that falls during Spring Break, the last week of class, or finals week.

Allow sufficient time to read your book and write your report. Information on how to write your report is available via the course resources tab.

This week's topical blog will be devoted to your analysis of the movie Billy Elliot.

This movie has concepts from Chapters 14-15.

Watch the movie. Take notes.

Next, write your comment. Your comment does not need to provide an overview of the movie (we have all seen it). Your comment should be an in-depth analysis of one or more principles from your text. You should use scenes and characters to provide examples of textbook concepts. Your comment should reflect that you are in an upper division, university level Motivation and Emotion course and clearly link elements from the movie to the textbook.  This is a comprehensive assignment (linking course lectures, textbook, and the movie) and you cannot do that in just a few short paragraphs.

BE SPECIFIC. At the bottom of your comment, please put a list of the ME terms you used.

Your reading blog for this week is over Chapter 15. Your blog should summarize this chapter.

Next, go out on the internet and research a topic of interest to you that you found in chapter 15. Report on what you found, and include at least 2 links to that information.

Your reading blog for this week is over Chapter 14. Your blog should summarize this chapter.

Next, go out on the internet and research a topic of interest to you that you found in chapter 14. Report on what you found, and include at least 2 links to that information.

This week's topical blog will be devoted to your analysis of the movie The Fighter.

This movie has concepts from Chapters 10-13.

Watch the movie. Take notes.

Next, write your comment. Your comment does not need to provide an overview of the movie (we have all seen it). Your comment should be an in-depth analysis of one or more principles from your text. You should use scenes and characters to provide examples of textbook concepts. Your comment should reflect that you are in an upper division, university level Motivation and Emotion course and clearly link elements from the movie to the textbook.  This is a comprehensive assignment (linking course lectures, textbook, and the movie) and you cannot do that in just a few short paragraphs.

BE SPECIFIC. At the bottom of your comment, please put a list of the ME terms you used.

Your reading blog for this week is over Chapter 13. Your blog should summarize this chapter.

Next, go out on the internet and research a topic of interest to you that you found in chapter 13. Report on what you found, and include at least 2 links to that information.

Your reading blog for this week is over Chapters 11 AND 12. Your blog should summarize these chapters, but you do not have to write a double length blog.

Next, go out on the internet and research a topic of interest to you that you found in chapter 11 or 12. Report on what you found, and include at least 2 links to that information.

For this assignment, browse the blog (you can use the categories on the right side to guide you, or go through the archives (link on bottom of page)). Once you find a post that is interesting to you, reply as a comment to THAT post. To ensure we are able to find your work and give you credit for it, please then respond to this post, with the link to that main post that you responded to.

The post you choose may be comprehensive and have all the information you need to make an informed comment. Others might be a brief description of a link provided by that post-er. In that case, you should review that linked material and respond with that as part of your knowledge.

Chapter 10

Read chapter 10. Summarize the chapter. What was the most surprising thing you learned? What does the self have to do with motivation? How does this knowledge help you to motivate yourself towards desired goals?

Provide a list of terms at the end of your post that you used from the chapter.

Procrastination is largely seen as a problem with motivation. But is it really?

Read the following: http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/ (you can also check out entries under his blog tab, and other essays tab).

What do you think? If you are a procrastinator, do these concepts ring true for you? What terminology from our study of Motivation apply?

This week's topical blog will be devoted to your analysis of the movie Ray.

You are to determine which chapters (1-9) are most relevant to this movie.

Watch the movie. Take notes.

Next, write your comment. Your comment does not need to provide an overview of the movie (we have all seen it). Your comment should be an in-depth analysis of one or more principles from your text. You should use scenes and characters to provide examples of textbook concepts. Your comment should reflect that you are in an upper division, university level Motivation and Emotion course and clearly link elements from the movie to the textbook.  This is a comprehensive assignment (linking course lectures, textbook, and the movie) and you cannot do that in just a few short paragraphs.

BE SPECIFIC. At the bottom of your comment, please put a list of the ME terms you used.

This week's topical blog will be devoted to your analysis of the movie The Doctor.

You are to determine which chapters (1-9) are most relevant to this movie.

Watch the movie. Take notes.

Next, write your comment. Your comment does not need to provide an overview of the movie (we have all seen it). Your comment should be an in-depth analysis of one or more principles from your text. You should use scenes and characters to provide examples of textbook concepts. Your comment should reflect that you are in an upper division, university level Motivation and Emotion course and clearly link elements from the movie to the textbook.  This is a comprehensive assignment (linking course lectures, textbook, and the movie) and you cannot do that in just a few short paragraphs.

BE SPECIFIC. At the bottom of your comment, please put a list of the ME terms you used.

Check out this animation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

First, how accurate is his information? Any problems compared to your textbook's information on these topics?

Second, how was the experience of watching this? Did it help you understand the material better? If so why?

If I gave you 24 hours of autonomy (for use for this course though!) what do you think you could do? What information would you pursue? What would you make? Or create? Or discover? How would you use your time to learn more about motivation or emotion, or use your knowledge to do something?

http://www.uncontactedtribes.org/

Browse through this site...read some articles, look at the pictures...on the evidence page each of those images is actually a video, watch some of those too.

What does the topic of uncontacted tribes have to do with physiological needs? How do they meet their physiological needs? Do you think that they are not meeting their physiological needs as well as we are? What are your thoughts? What is most surprising/intriguing to you?