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PSY/355 MOTIVATIONAL PROCESSES IN HUMAN PSYCHOLOGY 2011 3 4 W2q1 Motivation and drug use I was watching “no ordinary family” and in that specific TV show even though one of the characters can influence thought, that ability cannot previent the motivation which caused the thought. I was thinking about this and the pathology of how thoughts form. 2011 3 4 W2q1 melissa response Junk food as you put it has some chemical additives which have some evidence as being extremely addictive. High fructose corn syrup (hfcs) which is labeled a hundred things has statistically speaking given rise to the epidemic of diabetes. At the same time hfcs was introduced into the processed food supply the rait of diabetes started to shot up. Some five decades later the numbers are still equal; the amount of hfcs and the amount of diabetes are in stark similar. The addictive quality is why the situation is so dangerous. Now with your upbringing with x parent good food y parent “fend for yourself” as you put it, leads to the idea of the time between your “I do not want to eat this stuff from x” your system was detoxing from the y foods. It is very hard to want to eat good stuff when the nutrition system is in crisis. Biochemically speaking you went from one week on the beach with a good book to combat; many in psychology would say that is the definition/equivalent of nutritional ptsd. And you wonder why you did not want to spend much time on the beach. Takes time to remove the combat stuff from the system, the pain of combat is hard to enjoy the beach. W2q1 fear I was reading about the fear of snakes and such and was caught by the concept of children and things they are afraid of (Deckers, 2010 p 66). Clowns, snakes, spiders, etc and the differences therein. Some kids want to go into the woods specifically to see snakes, spiders, etc. Some kids will go to vast length to avoid any and all interactions with things they are afraid of. I will not go into that house because I am sure there are spiders in that house. Or I will not do to that location because there might be clowns around. Then I was caught by Newton’s third law (equal and opposite reaction) as it applies to archetypes. An archetype; leaders, service, vendors (salespeople), politicians, executives, managers, soldiers, etc. I was wondering if there is any research on what archetype someone is either drawn by nurture or nature and correlating fear concepts. The fear and or uneasiness with blood disqualify some to do anything with medicine. The fear and or uneasiness with wildlife means they do little if anything with the outdoors. The character of Rose from the movie “point break” had an interesting aspect to his character. “rose is a mechanism; once he is set into motion he almost cannot be stopped. Unless I tell him not to, he will gut her like a fish and try not to get any on his shoes. He can do those things without any regard. He is a mechanism, he is gifted that way.” While others would not even be able to mildly understand the concept of hand to hand combat. I wonder if a correlation can be created which would allow for such. A leader might be drawn to beinhg afraid of x, service afraid of y, etc. Motivational
theories After reading the chapters several times I wanted to know a
more complete list of the theories of motivation. So far 15 and still
compiling.
3. Darwin’s theory of evolution 4. Drive 5. Needs 6. The Law of
Effect behavior 7. Pain 8. law of effect. 9. Sigmund Freud’s theory of unconscious motivation. 10. Hedonism 11. Agentic theory 12. Incentive theory 13. Cognitive dissonance theory
18. Cognitive theories
19. Intrinsic motivation and the 16
basic desires theory
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23. W2q1 hippocampus According to general outline of the brain; before much can take place in the brain the input device as to tell the brain what is going on outside the mostly enclosed area. That is the hippocampus which takes signals from the senses and through a complicated sequence of actions on several sections of the hippocampus converts the senses input into a language the rest of the brain can understand (Rathore, 2009). So I would say the hippocampus is a major section of the brain in which motivation and emotions have their start if not is close to the start. As gestalt teaches us; the whole is greater than the sum of its parts (Bloom, 2009). I think motivation and emotions are from a combination of several aspects converging together. King of like a Maypole; multiple strings waving together to make one finished thing at the end. Which ironically the maypole in some cultures was all about social motivation and the emotions of the individual. The genes help formulate motivation and emotion, the hippocampus is another line of input, the social norms the individual chooses to live their lives within, etc. Emotions are a funny thing, pun not intended. Bloom, D. (2009). The Phenomenological Method of
Gestalt Therapy: Revisiting Husserl to Discover the "Essence" of
Gestalt Therapy. Gestalt Review, 13(3), 277-295. Retrieved from EBSCOhost. Rathore, C., George, A., Kesavadas, C., Sarma, P., & Radhakrishnan, K. (2009). Extent of initial injury determines language lateralization in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis (MTLE-HS). Epilepsia, 50(10), 2249-2255. Retrieved from EBSCOhost. W2q1 translations I find it amazing the hippocampus in regards to emotions, motivations, and interpretation. One of my interests is in Linguistics. It did not take me long to realize the complexity of languages associated with this entire process. It seams the senses operate on one or each one has its own language. Which travels up the nervous system to the hippocampus. Once in the hippocampus the absorption process begins. Which is where the emotions and motivation reaction to external stimulation starts. For me as a child knowing the reality of what I observed and was told started a strange internal cycle. Processing the facts I could listen to something remember it for a few seconds or so and then it was gone always bugged me. I did not like the fact I could not instantly recall events which just took place. I have no idea how many times I have looked at my watch knew exactly what time it was, a thought or something external happened and the recollection of what time it was simple left my consciousness. This concept always bugged me. Especially when I could remember long standing stuff the formulation of those memories and the stuff which just occurred seamed different. Like they were written in different languages. Those different languages (showed in MRIs, etc) are a keen motivation devise, which also sets off the emotions. How many people have had an instant emotional response to something and will go to the ends of the earth with pure hard motivation to achieve some x goal. The different languages and the different responses from each is an interesting subject to test. There might be a few trick circuits to reveal differing aspects to how we are motivated by emotional reaction starting in the hippocampus. “he has no off switch” would be a reference to one of the trick circuits in the brain. W1q1 motivational illusions One day a client will walk into your office with a remarkable story which will be 95-99% accurate. Now you can either buy the story and try to counsel them on the story they tell you; or you can know there is always motivation from abuse which will cause both parties involved to create stories to cover the truth. “I ran into a door” is the classic significant other abuse excuse. Now it is easy to see past the junk. But there are some stories motivated by so much long term decades and in some cases generations of abuse the story becomes the reality for both parties. The abuse and victim both 99% believe the story and not the truth. The motivation behind why depending on person can literally cover the entire gambit of motivational theories. But here is a small snippet of how it is possible to take just a couple facts and remove the illusions both are attempting to create for you. The incredible city of Camelot is a perfect example of cultural motivation to lie and create a fallacy which is believable but incorrect. The correct portions draw an entirely different story. What are the points to the story. Camelot was in Wales possibly Cardiff castle or Tintangile. King Arthur was a Welch who joined forced with the pic to defeat the Anglo-Saxon invaders in the power vacuum after the Roman empire collapsed. King Arthur eventually becomes king of all the Britts; ruling all of the uk from his Camelot in Wales. Now for the truth. Not a single city in wales was large enough to raise a large enough knight army to go toe to toe against anyone but the occasional group of bandits. Knights are full time warriors, they might have a group who tend the farm they have won in combat or a favor from a king. But mostly knights just train all their lives. So a large man with at least 3 horses with at least four squires who all they do is either train or combat. Not a single city in Wales could support a standing 100 knights let alone a knights force large enough to take on any standing army. So the first major error 1% has been found. But that 1% is the key to canceling the entire equation. If that one small piece of information is wrong, than the entire rest of the story is wrong. No matter what the motivation, and abusers and victims will use any tool they can find to believe in the “rose colored glasses” picture than the reality of what actually happened. In truth neither want to believe they are capable or were forced to do the actions of said. Even though this week is all about understand one or two motivations; in truth the abuse cycles are strong enough to employ many different techniques to hid the truth. Studying the mechanics of each will allow a better picture of how to decode the Camelot story; most clients will come to you with. So the truth; The British owned from just south of York to 30miles north south (?) of Edinburgh. But they only owned the middle and east side of the area the Welch owned the south western and the Pics owned from Wales to the 30miles north south (?) of Glasgow. The pics and the Welch are cousins of the British but the British are actually several families who controlled from York to Edinburgh. That main family and the strongest of the families within the framework of the Brittish were the family Northumberland; different spelling in Gaelic v English(Latin). So since Edinburgh was large enough and has been a seat of royalty several times four major pieces of evidence points to the truth v abuse story. They are; city size, Wales is not British territory but Edinburgh is, Edinburgh has been a seat of royalty dozens of times, Edinburgh is also only 10 or so miles from the Ceremonial area the Scottish kings were crowned at; Dunfermilne (. Depending on family and area about half the Scottish population consider themselves British; not English mind you. Now for the important portion of the situation; where the truth became legend. Turning from actual history to an abusive story. The stories did not come into existence till after circa 850 c.e. What is that date so radically important; because that is the date the pics created a large enough army and kicked the Northumberland family of the British out of the UK. The Pics joined with some Scotts and with the Welch joined forces and defeated the Northumberlanders. The Northumberlanders were forced into exile in Normandy for 200 years till a cousin named William seized an opportunity eg a whole in the defenses and invaded. Bringing his cousins the exiled British back to power in the UK; which took place in 1066. Yes that date and that battle. The pics were so soundly defeated their culture was almost completely obliterated. The mass majority of the stories were written in France by cousin cultures to the Pics. What would motivate the Pics in charge of the UK to encourage a story which took place before they had power and strongly publish all kinds of stories about it in the centuries they had power? Unless they were using the classical political motivation of take the strongest of the stories of the enemy and make them your stories. Kill any and everyone that might know the difference. In effect seizing the enemy’s power and making it your own. Seizing the power and making it your own is a wonderful motivation for covering abuse. The stronger the story borrowed the easier for the audience to believe. The more the audience believes the more the abuser and victim will convince themselves based on convincing others. Other than true hard nut jobs who enjoy lying; most abuse situations both parties want to forget the event took place. The abuser wants the thrill but not the guilt. Playing detective is a major part of the job of any counselor. W1q1 I am tripping around an idea which has not manifested itself in my brain yet. I know an idea is coming but it is not present yet. I have experienced the is same thing a thousand times; I can feel an idea coming but its all fragments and illusions as yet. How do I find a proper way to motivate myself to produce those ideas faster? W1q1 C To me I like the idea of a degree or an external goal taking a decade or more to achieve. The entire get in quick, get things done good enough, and get on the with achievement is the worst and wrong way to achieve real discipline in the field. Now it has taken me 10 days shy of 4 decades at understand that. Even a few years ago I still believed that I can achieve any goal I set my mind to by myself in not even a small fraction of the time others might have to invest. But I came to the realization that I was missing all the discipline and stamina necessary to do the job let alone do the base education in a fraction of the time. I started my journey at about eight years old with the motivation of Self-determination theory with a healthy amount of arrogance. I figured what I might want to invest my lifes work in and on would only take till my mid 20s at most. 15 years after my end date fast approaching I know my end goal will take more than to my last breath to achieve. But time is a funny thing as the philosophers point out. Despite current scientific theorizing C is not constant. All kinds of strange and unusual things can occur within the framework on a created magnetosphere and altering the inside contents just off of the planets home signature (Jia, 2010). If and when those occur; some strange and unusual events can be measured and brought into the realm of science. I am looking at extending my academic career by about 12 years. For which I am actually happy about. I am looking forward to creating the disciplines and stamina necessary to achieve that kind of layered goals. Jia, X., Xin, W., & Da-Zhu, M. (2010). Chaotic motion of dust particles in planetary magnetospheres. Pramana: Journal of Physics, 74(6), 907-917. doi:10.1007/s12043-010-0083-y W1q1 motivation and magnets One of the things which has constantly bugged me in psychology class are all the references to the basic physics of I want this, I do not want that, and I could not care less about that. In our textbook is says a key motivator is the push and pull thing. That push pull thing is basic physics. Newton’s three laws and push pull are very closely linked (Saglam-Arslan, 2010). But how does a biological molecule pull i.e. want something and then send out the appropriate signal and or signal device which leads to the hippocampus sending a signal to that specific lobe with the idea of “I want this” and starting to do the physical actions necessary to do or get that thing. That pathology of action fascinates me. Where does the motion start of that specific motivation? How much before the thought does the action actually start. In boxing motion is generated from the toes. Moving up the stance into the legs, where the back takes over primary location and adding more power, then to the shoulders, out the arms, and into the first. But the motion and motivation to do the action started long before the brain told toe “to ok hit x target now.” To me there seems to be a lot of variables missing from the sequence to even get close to identifying the motivational theory to understand what is going on. Saglam-Arslan, A., & Devecioglu, Y. (2010). Student teachers' levels of understanding and model of understanding about Newton's laws of motion. Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning & Teaching, 11(1), 1-20. Retrieved from EBSCOhost. W1q1 self esteem Over the course of almost 14 years I have had a large number of websites I have worked on. Some were good ideas, some were ok, and others simply stank. But an idea I had about 2 years ago (which itself is based on other ideas I had at the very beinning) was to put some of my ideas on line. Both for more than just a class and a teacher to see them but also to get some of my ideas out into the market. Some of my ideas are beyond radical. Not because of any chemical enhancements (have never imbibed anything, other than a bit of alcohol as a older teen young 20s. Found I was allergic to alcohol, so since I like breathing, no more for me every; thank you.). Some of the most radical of my ideas comes directly from ancient cultures that developed some really amazingly radical ideas. Those ideas are; c is not constant, the orbit is different, their calendar is based on the orbit, and the absolute consistencies behind magnets. They developed a mathematics based on basics of magnetism. My motivation for putting the sites up and updating them occasionally has been the same since day one; incentive. I wanted people to know, and I wanted to be the “torch bearer”. Has incentive to achieve so I did. But I do not want to be the torch bearer out of fame or infamy, but to help bring light into the dark. So in brief my motivations have been incentive oriented, but that only starts the chat about the layers involved. It also just starts the chat about how truthful with myself I am (MAKADOK, 2009). Now the reason the sites are down is for another reason. I have a long term plan. I know what the pot at the end of the metaphoric rainbow is and where the X is located. But I only the other hand do not know the path to get to the destination. Something’s I have had a high enough self esteem to just “ignore the torpedoes, full speed ahead” and other times I remind myself I want to pull a curie and release it all during my boards. As self esteem goes up and down over the course of months I go back and forth as to the proper application of how to navigate to where I want to go. One of the awesome things about the last class is I was able to talk to another teacher about the class and my navigation and a possible new direction was proposed. That new direction changes every aspects of the navigation. My motivation at this point is waiting and seeing what way will work the best. MAKADOK, R., & COFF, R. (2009). BOTH MARKET AND HIERARCHY: AN INCENTIVE-SYSTEM THEORY OF HYBRID GOVERNANCE FORMS. Academy of Management Review, 34(2), 297-319. Retrieved from EBSCOhost. W1q2 pain motivation In drive motivational theory, what causes the
emotional pain (Gregor, 2006)? If people only drink to remove the emotional
pain, what caused it in the first place? I like physics, I also search for the concept
of; post hoc ergo propter hoc, Latin for "after this, therefore
because of this.” Most of the time
this phrase is meaningless, because few times are the variables either not
identified or the few known are lined up incorrectly. Just because some available evidence shows
some are escaping emotional pain, that is not a correct blanket statement.
Not every person who likes to drink beer or ingest other similar substances
is running from pain. The motivations toward actions cannot be so clearly
defined. The best way to assign motivation for an
individual operating in a group setting is to explore the intangible. The
intangible are the areas in which the only way to know is for the subject to
tell the truth as why they are doing the things they are doing. For instance my motivation for asking most of
my current classmates if it was ok with them if I read their posts and
commented if I had an idea from their posts. The reason why I did this was
not to be difficult but because in the past I have had more than a share of
really nasty comments back about me sticking my nose in where it did not
belong. I was not happy about these past situations, but I also know rather
well that if I ask them why they did the actions they did a loaded gun at
their head would not have given them the sudden clarity to tell first
themselves and second me what the problem was. So my motivation is based on the theory of
incentive (MAKADOK, 2009). I do not want the consequences from someone who
obviously is not interested in input. Which is similar to the incentives
applied to I will not commit a robbery because I have no interest in ever
going to jail. There is not enough money in fort Knox for me to chance any of
it. The real problem in dealing with the proper
identification of what motivates people is how much western cultures teach
citizens to ignore any and everything which does not conform to the current
“pop culture”. I will give another for instance, I have a
friend who is so shattered by family abuse PTSD that they are still carrying
the same behavior patterns they needed to defend against their family members
decades after the fact. Most of the primary abusers are dead, but they are
unable to break the patterns. They are also unable to explain at all why they
are doing the actions they are. When they do give an accurate explanation it
only comes at the end of a very difficult pathology. Definition of an
accurate explanation the physical actions have to match. Nature is a great driving force but nature
does not fill in enough spaces to make the post hoc ergo propter hoc variables line up correctly. Lining up
the variables to create the linear sequence of where the abuse stated, what
was the abuse, what was the result, etc is the job of a psychologist. The
client is paying us to cut through the junk and find their post hoc
ergo propter hoc so each
variable can be found, fixed, and the client can then have a wonderful happy
life. MAKADOK, R., & COFF, R. (2009). BOTH
MARKET AND HIERARCHY: AN INCENTIVE-SYSTEM THEORY OF HYBRID GOVERNANCE FORMS. Academy
of Management Review, 34(2), 297-319. Retrieved from EBSCOhost. Gregor, S. (2006). THE NATURE OF THEORY IN
INFORMATION SYSTEMS. MIS Quarterly, 30(3), 611-642. Retrieved from
EBSCOhost. W1q2 psychopaths and neuropathways and Motivational behavior I just finished watching “who do you think you are” a genealogy show on TV. This week they did Kim Catrel of Sex in the City fame; among others. Her heritage is very interesting. Not because of anything genetic but because of the conditioned responses each culture builds into its citizens. Kim was born and partially raised in Liverpool England. But the reason why the place is called the United Kingdom is because of the islands that make up the UK are a group of semi-cooperative still mentally kingdoms that work together (kindof). Kims father was a bigamist. He did so many destructive behaviors all his life. He may not have been a killing psychopath, but some of his actions had horrific consequences. The problem is it did not matter to him at all the problems and troubles he caused. He was alive for decades after some of his worst behavior and those actions did not seem to bother him in the least. Kim is from the Kingdom of Liverpool. Which itself is on the boarder reagion between Wales, the pics to the north, the Mercia to the east, and Northumberland to the north east. Although the northumberlnad connection is not a close one more of a part time enemy part time overloard and sometimes close allie. The struggles between the kingdoms in England/Brittian since long before the Romans “found the place” (ha ha, the Cretans had a trade route in southern Scotland since around 3000 b.c.e) around 100 b.c.e. The point is the Liverpool area has its own unique to England identity established well before the Beattles and Beetnicks had a description. But it is that character trait which presented itself in both the Beattles and the Beetnicks in which Kims father did some of his more nasty actions. He needed to live and be free. As a teen he often ran away at night only to be brought back in the morning my the cops because he had been caught either loitering, sleeping, etc around the town. He spent his entire live attempting to escape from things which confined him. What personality trait would cause someone to need to be so independent that there was literally no possible way the person could build the neuropathways to allow them to think critically and then formulate strategic consequences for actions (Baron-Cohen, 1999). I read someplace the average 9 year old and the average psychopath are very similar in many ways (Yaling, 2010). Maybe the pre-puberty stage of development is where the psychopaths do not grow the new neuropathways necessary to not do horrific actions. A persons motivational behavior i.e. how they act, interact, and react to situations in their lives is partially responsible if not strongly responsible for creating those neuropathways. What in a persons behavior leads them to formulate differing neuropathways which years and decades later leads to good or bad actions? Baron-Cohen, S., Ring, H. A., Wheelwright, S., Bullmore, E. T., Brammer, M. J., Simmons, A., & Williams, S. R. (1999). Social intelligence in the normal and autistic brain: an fMRI study. European Journal of Neuroscience, 11(6), 1891-1898. doi:10.1046/j.1460-9568.1999.00621.x Yaling, Y., Patrick, C., Adrian, R., Arthur W., T., & Katherine L., N. (2010). Morphological Alterations in the Prefrontal Cortex and the Amygdala in Unsuccessful Psychopaths. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 119(3), 546-554. doi:10.1037/a0019611 W1q2 sandman This is not preachy, or weird. This is a lesson in truth v illusion. Truth being the grain not the rest of the illusions. As I read all about motivation in chapter one I am struck with the idea; the sandman comic. One fine day the sandman was going about his usual duties, when a shadow started to follow him. Seeing an opportunity the shadow grabbed the sandmans bag of sand and immediately left. Instead of angrily and violently following, the sandman simply followed the little shadow down into hell. The sandman walked past every nastiness hell had to offer, arriving at the deepest bowels of the place in the throne room. The sandman walked directly up to the throne and simply stated with a quiet and easy tone “One of your shadows has my bag of sand, I would like it back please.” D: “well if you can find your bag you can have it”. With that D called all his minions to him filling the throne room to standing room only. The sandman turned and walked directly up to the shadow that had the bag and extended his hand. The shadow gave the bag back. The sandman turned to leave. D: “what makes you think you can just leave?” S; lifting up just one finger slowly and with ease of care “one, just one grain of hope and the worst of the worst here is not thing compared to just one grain of hope” With that the sandman turned and left hell. The point to this is no matter what the distractions, illusions, etc are keep concentrating on the base of motivation and everything else is simply useless distractions. Siddhartha who created an entire movement behind his philosophy (despite popular belief it is not a religion. Although prince Siddhartha did have a religion and parts of that religion show in his philosophy.). During the point he was thinking about his philosophy and putting the final touches on it he had a concept run though his head. The dark god of his culture came to him in his prayer time. His cultures dark entity threatened with violence, offered every possible riches the world had to offer, even offered him his hand in friendship, asked to be healed of his darkness, and wanted absolution for his nastiness. Siddhartha simply giggled to himself, “why would an illusion do anything. You are nothing but a figment of my imagination. You are no more real than any other thought not given power to manifest.” With that the dark god of the Hindi faith vanished, leaving Siddhartha one with and at balance with the universe. At the base of different cultural aspects the truth sometimes is hard to find and define. Motivation is in the same lines of metaphoric concept. Finding motivation is not about paying attention to the external junk but what the true push, pull, and neutral of any given item and biological desires with those items is. The more we strive to ignore the illusions the more we can find the truth behind the illusions which control our emotions. Both illusions mentioned do not necessarily mean one item. W1q1 weakest members Do you know who the weakest members of a society are? If you guess children you are mistaken. Now 100 years ago that was a correct statement beyond doubt, but today the weakest members of the American civilization are the adult handicapped/medically disabled. I say this because if you are suffering from a seriously illness and you do not have a healthy advocate in your corner you will fall through the cracks so fast you might break the sound barrier. If you are an adult with any kind of physical impairment but overall healthy, again without an advocate you are also stuck. I have a friend who became physically encumbered but did not have good advocates; consequently their health care was at times beyond bad. All the police could do was to have my friend go off to a public Medicaid nursing home. Medicaid nursing homes are an easy place to spot since they are located someplace between the 5 and 20 layer of hell depending on of course the state and how much each governor thinks is a pork project. Healthcare for the poor and handicapped is almost always on the chopping block first; no advocates and massively expensive. If you go into psychological counseling; some of your clients will be the weakest members of the society and the stories will hurt. What technique in motivation can be used to help someone trapped on a ill working body? Or help keep their spirits up when they need a piece of equipment which might cost 200,000$ and there is a waiting list about 2000 years long. W1q2 teacher failing high school I graduated high school with a 1.97; to my extremely over achieving family I did flunk out. But one side benefit to living most of my entire life from 7 up has been the facts of my personality archetype is on the lip of the bell (bell curve). So when I knew I was on the lip culturally I knew that was just a part of my personality which I could either fight against (loosing each step of the way) or I could embrace it and achieve through it. Someplace around my 12th birthday I knew my educational goals and my families goals were in contradiction. So instead of begging for help and assistance I instead I knew I had to go in the completely opposite direction and set my sights inward. Fortunately a generation back where about 3 artists. So I had the early training in “if you have an artistic project in you, do not stop till you get it out” conditioned responses from them. I found out recently that my mother before I was a todder was also a professional artist. So I was encouraged in a very silent but approving very removed and distant way by my own mother to approach my research. My mother is one of the strongest people I know, but acts like the perfect church mouse on the outside. My mother was married to an abusive marine for 7 years, she made like so oddly difficult for him he left her. So when I knew I wanted to decode the junk we were taught in history class; I knew just how to do it. Without the false conditioned responses of my family and my parochial school I would not have anywhere near the level of history knowledge I do. That knowledge of history has helped me scientifically in more ways than I can easily point out. Including finding and decode a plural number line from our cultures ancient past. Ironically that plural number line pieces of which are scattered throughout our combined cultural identity. I doubt I would have found it if I did not have a strangely functional disfuntional family or “failed highschool (in their opinion)” career. W1q2 Catherine
culture “I think your points are very
well studied and your knowledge is obviously there. I was just curious how
you compare "societal norms" like beer and theme parks to
motivational drives.” For those old enough “Norm”
was shouted at the door in a celebratory greeting from the bar at cheers to
the character of Norman. He would literally do all kinds of things just to
get another bear. For him and those societal
archetypes like him, they are not addicted Norm does not want to drink an
entire Keg all by himself every night. But most of his motivations in life
are about being able to drink a few every day. Whether it is the taste,
atmosphere, the commorodary, getting away from responsibilities at home, a
combination of all, etc those archetypes almost sole motivation is to arrange
all aspects of their life toward x goal. “A motivational drive for fun
is present in human beings.” I find fun a subjective things
in humans. For some fun is watching a movie, others it is sitting surrounded
by family, for others it is a warm fire and a good book, etc at enfinitum.
But that is not the only category; I have known people who no matter what the
reason and or point their fun is with messing with others. Unless person A is
causing person/s B/CDE pain or discomfort there is no pleasure going to
person A. The extremes of this are the archetype psychopaths; but not all
sadists are psychopaths. Not all
dominats/aggressive people are sadistic. Hard to put into a
comprehensive arrangement because the variables start moving into areas where
most of the variables are outside the framework of western cultures ability
to measure. Just because current science
does not understand something does not mean it does not exist. “We want to enjoy life,
therefore we have a motivation towards the pursuit of happiness, but perhaps
the ways that we pursue the drive toward happiness differs in each culture
and that is why we find differing societal norms.” I could not agree with you
more! One of the aspects of my studies of psychology is my previous studies
into sociology dove tail into one another. Each social structure has its own
special and interesting sets of rules, code up proper conduct. In Ancient
Rome to honor a special guest it was a standard thing to offer either an
attractive slave or if the official was really important the eldest unmarried
daughter in the house as a gift for the night to the VIP. Leaving out the
gross parts and the to modern American culture the aspects which are
loathsome; which is exactly the point. Inside each person’s house they the
leader of that house sets the rules/code of proper conduct. Depending on what
the leaders enjoyment factor is depends a lot on how they run their
households. “What other cultures do you
see a motivational difference with as opposed to just differences in
societies ways of expressing their motivations?” The motivations of a thousand
aspects of each culture is where a person’s wants, needs, and desires come
out and play within what is acceptable to each layer of variables. I have lived all over the us;
Ohio, Colorado, Fl, Cali, Washington state, Virginia, etc. I have seen a
hundred family dynamics. Of those family dynamics each
household runs itself slightly different. You can get an idea of how a
household will be run based on the culture that family comes from. When studying sociology there
is a radical difference between race and culture. Nothing about race is that
accurate; but the conditioned responses of culture are almost bankable as to
what can be expected. Unless the individual has done a lot of internal work
with a good therapist to extinct the bad or unhealthy “unfun” patterns and
worked equally hard to replace those unfun habits with good conditioned
responses. W1q1 personal choice Anna Others and I operate slightly differently, so I think I can answer your questions to the best of my understanding coming from different angles. First others; I find people can achieve some level of not only success but accomplishment with little to no external validation depending on the conditioned responses built in from their upbringing. Someone who has justifiable praise growing up can achieve all kinds of things with little to no validation. But depending on how much friends and family members had issues they needed to work out on those around them, depends on how much basic validation is required for the individual. The more damage the more validation from external source. But then again there is the power of the will, the aspects of self confidence, and some kind of inner drive. Which the first variable and the will power variable are very hard to determine a good description of. Second me; for me depending on my physical health I can go a long way into working on something with little to no external validation. There is all kinds of stuff I can work on for long periods of time with almost not a single word of external encouragement and still push the project through. Other times I lose hope and am unable to summon up enough “juice” to precede even one small step forward. Most of my ability to keep focused on a project requires a combination of things. I need my environment not to be so chaotic I cannot keep focused on anything long term. I need to have the thinking time in order to keep my mind in the game; so I can focus all my concentration on doing all the steps in a row which will lead to a finished project. Like my writing; most of the items I work on are long, complicated, detail oriented, and require massive level of research to find all the evidence. Putting the evidence into a multidimensional puzzle that can make sense to more than just me. So I guess some aspects of my external validity is a good organizational structure capable of putting the fires out so I can sit and concentrate. The more fires I have to put out the less well I can achieve finishing. But then again, is keeping me on focus and task a none verbal form of validation? W1q2 Adolf Ironically the internal fight with Adolf between
incentives and cognitive
dissonance I theorize is one of the platforms of why he did what he did. He
wanted the candy of his country to be whole; doing any and all actions to
achieve a unified and strong empire of germnay. But his internal fight with a
dozen internal motivations lead to major contradictions of character. He was
raised hard strict German Catholic, but he was forced to accept an incestuous
relationship with his grandparents v the truth of his jewish grandfather good
german grandmother. His intimate interests he could never pull away from
being a contradiction for him (he was most likely either flat homosexual or
bi with strong tendencies). The
more he aged the stronger the battle in his head became. The more the
syphilis and Parkinson’s took hold the more he lost the fight and lost his
ability to not turn his internal fight to the world. Anger turned inward will
eventually come out (Roos, 2002). I
find it fascinating how a society ticks. Each society ticks in slightly
different ways. “It’s the little things I miss, in France they do not offer
quarter lbs in MacDonald’s. They offer the “royal with cheese”, since they
operate on the metric system” the character of Vincent Vega from the movie
Pulp Fiction. The little differences between cultures can be found, I think,
in how each culture and citizens apply and balance between differing
motivation theories. In America other than theme parks/etc beer is not an
acceptable family outing item. But in Europe a beer can be found almost
anywhere. In England they have no “Hollywood”, they do have major studies
with huge sound stages. But in America we have two(almost three) separate
entertainment capitals; Hollywood, Branson/Nashville, Kissimmee fl. In
America we have a dozen theme parks; in France they tolerate at best Europe
Disney. The
motivations behind what each individual will accept growing into what a
culture will accept; those balances between theories are a fascinating
subject to delve into. Roos, J. (2002). Backlash against Prostitues' Rights: Origins and Dynamics of Nazi Prostitution Policies. Journal of the History of Sexuality, 11(1/2), 67. Retrieved from EBSCOhost. W1q2 Motivational
theories Of the many theories on primary motivations; one
incentive theory, two cognitive
dissonance strike me as the most interesting to start with. Possibly because
of a paper I wrote in my first psychology class on Adolf. Incentive: I will do
something for a food reward/etc. Cognitive dissonance: I am doing x action
now but I want to do y action, what do I need to do in order to move from
doing x to y action (Malerstein, 2005). There
are several but these two show a stark contrast with one another. The
cognitive is the basis of being able to play chess; I wonder how many moves
ahead I can think. The other is almost pure reactionary; based on the eat,
sleep, procreate survival motivations. The
two I brought up are to me the most interesting to compare and contrast since
at this point in the history of western culture a global multi-theater of war
is occurring with these motivators on both sides operating. I find both side
operating depending on level of function/level in the origination from both
side of these theories. A
society can be seen as a “piece of candy” to its citizens. Some individuals
will do anything (including the last full measure of devotion) to get the
societal piece of candy. While others in that same society are strategic
thinkers; knowing what they want at the end but struggle to find appropriate
ways to move from point A through point B, C, D, E, etc to get to the
destination X. Others
operate from differing points of view and theories of motivation,
understanding war is a primary interest for a society. If a society is at war
each citizen is being affected by the process of applying those theories on
how to live a life; from both sides. Malerstein, A. J. (2005). Comparison of Attachment Theory
and Cognitive-Motivational Structure Theory. American Journal of
Psychotherapy, 59(4), 307. Retrieved from EBSCOhost. W1q1 motivation physics “What
is motivation?”” As
Newton so eloquently put it “Rule one an object at rest tends to stay are
rest . Rule two an object in motion tends to stay in motion. Rule three and
equal an opposite reaction will occur based on force.” Add emotion to that
and you have motivation (Saglam-Arslan, 2010). What
causes a person to choose to get of and do something, or stop doing something
and sit down is motivation. Be that motivation internal or external. “What
are the major sources of motivation?” Hunger,
slept/safety, procreation. “Which
source affects you the most?” I
have many layers of sources which affect me. Depends on subject as to which
is dominant. My
need to help is internal aka “biological variables”, I will do it just about no
matter what. But I also crave “environmental variables” I huge
part of me requires validation for my actions. As evident in my chat forum
exchange, I actually need to read those words “I enjoy reading your posts.” But what I have found which is more
accurate about the balance of what motivates me is this. If much is given
much is expected. For me I have a great deal to not only say but a dozen
topics in which I can speak with proficiency. But I also need to have the
interaction of those that my work has affected. I will do the sitting quietly
and do the work without validation from the outside, but I enjoy it more if I
get validation. Saglam-Arslan, A., & Devecioglu, Y. (2010). Student
teachers' levels of understanding and model of understanding about Newton's
laws of motion. Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning & Teaching,
11(1), 1-20. Retrieved from EBSCOhost. W1q1 2011 2 22
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