Assignment involves recognizing examples of motivation and emotion concepts in a movie, television show, or book.
1. First, give a brief summary identifying the movie, television show, or book you are going to analyze as well as a brief (no more than 1-2 paragraph summary) of the plot.
2. Identify five motivation and emotion concepts in the movie, television show, or book. For each example, define the concept in your own words and explain how it can be see in the movie, show, or book.
One of the concepts must be a motivation from Maslow's hierarchy of needs. The remaining four concepts should come from the list below.
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
James- Lange theory of emotion
Two-factor theory of emotion
misattribution of arousal
facial feedback hypothesis
nonverbal communication
daily hassles
fight-or-flight response
tend-and-befriend response
emotion regulation
optimism
self-efficacy
social support
3. Write your essay in a word processing program and save the essay to your computer as a .doc file. This is the format we will use for most essays in this course. Please follow the Written Assignment Guidelines.