Psychology

MOTIVATION AND EMOTION ·             M otivation is defined as the process that initiates, guides and maintains goal-oriented behaviour. Motivation is drive of our action. Motivation is divided into two which is intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation. ·           Extrinsic motivation is defined as the things that arise from outside of the individual and often involve reward such as trophies, money, social recognitions, or praise. For example, a student attends guitar classes because his parents promise to double his allowance money. ·          Intrinsic motivation is as the thing that arise from within the individual, such as doing a complicated crossword puzzle purely for the personal gratification of solving a problem. For example, Sherlock Holmes famous fiction detective never solved cases for many or fame curiosity always got th...

Chapter 6. Human Development, Because Form 3's Chapter 4 Wasn't Educating Enough. Alright, the human development we're learning is a part of developmental psychology . Not anything like secondary school's Chapter 4 from Form 3. So, what is developmental psychology? The definition is the scientific study of biological, cognitive, social, and personality development throughout the life span . Basically, it's the development of ourselves throughout our lives. Definitions makes everything harder. There are seven stages of development , and they are: - Prenatal (From conception , conceiving a child, to birth ) - Infancy (From birth to 2 years ) - Childhood (From 2 to 12 years ) - Adolescence (From 12 to 18 years ) - Young Adulthood (From 18 to 40 years ) - Middle Adulthood (From 40 to 65 years ) Great. Buckle your safety belts and get some coffee if it's late at night, because this is going to be a long ride. Otherwise, by all means sleep...

Chapter 5. Our Memory. Since We Obviously Know How It Works. Truthfully though, we never give it much thought, but what is our memory anyway? The inner workings of our memory, is what we’ll talk about today. So, first things first. We all know what memory is for: Memorizing. Or else, why would it be called our ‘memory’? However, how do we ‘memorize’ and ‘remember’? Well, in memory, there are three key processes. The first is  Encoding , which involves forming a memory code . It's like the process of recording a video, where you take a video of the event that's happening. Next is  Storage , which involves maintaining encoded information in memory over time . So, it means taking that video you recorded and save it in the, well, storage! The final process is  Retrieval , which involves recovering information from memory stores . Again, it's just viewing the video from the storage. There is another way to memorize the three key processes in memory. Think of our me...