Motivation and emotion/Lectures/Historical development and assessment skills

Overview
This lecture:
 * Provides a historical context to the development of psychological motivation and emotion knowledge
 * Explains the assessment, including how to:
 * use Wikiversity for the topic development and book chapter assessment exercises and
 * develop a multimedia recording
 * complete the quizzes
 * access support for completing the assessment exercises

Take-home messages:
 * Motivation and emotion has evolved from grand theories to mini-theories which exhibit some common themes
 * A wiki is the simplest collaborative platform - anyone can edit to share knowledge

Outline
Motivation in historical perspective
 * Philosophical origins
 * Grand theories
 * Will
 * Instinct
 * Drive
 * Rise of mini-theories
 * Active nature of the person
 * Cognitive revolution
 * Socially relevant questions
 * Contemporary era
 * Reemergence of motivation study (1990s)
 * Brief history of emotion study

Assessment task skills
 * Topic selection
 * Topic development
 * Book chapter
 * Multimedia presenation
 * Quizzes

Assessment examples
See examples of high quality major project submissions for:
 * 1) Topic development
 * 2) Book chapter + Social contributions
 * 3) Multimedia presentation

Multimedia

 * Instinct theory, the power of motivation (CrashCourse Psychology #17, YouTube; 2:09 mins): Introduces motivation by explaining instinct theory
 * Drive theory, the power of motivation (CrashCourse Psychology #17, YouTube; 2:09 mins): Introduces motivation by explaining drive theory
 * A vision of students today (YouTube; 4:44 mins): Explores some reasons behind why are approaching the assessment this way
 * Wikis in plain English (Commoncraft; 3:53 mins) explains the concept of a wiki and how it works
 * Wikipedia - An investment for your future; your children's future (YouTube; 4:10 mins) explains the purpose of Wikipedia

Readings

 * 1) Chapter 02: Motivation in historical perspective (Reeve, 2018)
 * 2) Assessment
 * 3) Topic selection
 * 4) Topic development
 * 5) Book chapter
 * 6) Multimedia
 * 7) Quizzes
 * 8) Wikiversity skills
 * 9) Using generative AI

Slides

 * Historical development (Google Slides)
 * Assessment skills (Google Slides)

Recording

 * Lecture 02 (2023)