Motivation: Biological, Psychological, and Environmental

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Pearson Education, 2014 - 442 pages

A complete overview of motivation and emotion.

Well-grounded in the history of the field, the fourth edition of Motivation: Biological, Psychological, and Environmental combines classic studies with current research. The text provides an overarching organizational scheme of how motivation (the inducement of action, feelings, and thought) leads to behavior from physiological, psychological, and environmental sources. The material draws on topics that are familiar to students while maintaining a conversational tone to sustain student interest.

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Learning Goals

Upon completing this book, readers will be able to:

  • Define motivation and emotion.
  • Understand the psychological aspects of motivation.
  • Examine how the environment is a large source of motivation.

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About the author (2014)

Lambert Deckers is a professor of psychological science at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. He teaches courses mainly in motivation & emotion, psychology of learning, and history and systems of psychology. Professor Deckers is a charter member of the Association for Psychological Science and has conducted research in the psychology of humor in the United States and Germany.

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