Chaptes1-4 Motivations: Arousal and Performance

Chaptes1-4 Motivations: Arousal and Performance: " The section of reading that really grabbed my attention was that of arousal and performance. The minute Istarted to read this section I..."

Chaptes1-4 Motivations: Chapters 1-4 Motiation

Chaptes1-4 Motivations: Chapters 1-4 Motiation: " In chapter 1, we discuss and define the different components and aspects that surround motivation. Motivation can be defined as a movement..."

Arousal and Performance

     The section of reading that really grabbed my attention was that of arousal and performance. The minute Istarted to read this section I started to remember watching a television show called, Strange Addictions, and they had a woman on the show that talked about how much she had a passion for wrkin out and becoming a body builder. The need for anyone to work and improve their body seems to b something that is not looked at as out of the ordinary or strange. We often can look at this and view at as normal behavior,but unlike most people that strive to have long lasting consistent and non stoping work out sessions begins to be viewed as something is not right and is not normal behavior. In strange addictions this woman named Lauren had suffered from a long hisory of alcohol abuse that lasted for about 15 years. When she became clean and rehabilitated she found a passion in working out she felt that it gave her a sense and the need for energy and motivation.
    The need for her to continue to work out non stop on a day to day basis which consumes a lot of hours was Lauren's need for arousal and the performance of participating inworking out in the gym for various vigorous hours contributed to her need to peroform this task in order to achieve some gratifying results to obtain the body of a bodybuilder. Noticing the change in one's body like that of Lauren's had gave her some physiological arousal that corresponded and related to the need to feel energized by working out. Although many of her loved ones that noticed that she was focused mainly on body building became concerned with what changes that her body was experiencing internally.  I believe that this did not strike a concern with Lauren and was more striken at the fact of ot being able to go to the gym and if it were to be ever terminated from her normal activities that it would really affect.
    When trying to change our outlook for the bettr we tend to focus on just how it can be regarded as both a mixture of a sense of energy that empowers and embodies our behavior or it can also encompass our normal behavior in a negative way.  In this posting I have attache a link toallow the class to see and hear a little bit about of Lauren.


Lauren the body builder

Hello Dr. Berg

Hello Dr. Berg I think  I did this correctly. I repostd my post from Chapters 1-4. I just copied and paste it from the location where it was at. It was under a post as a comment from one of my class members titled chapter 1-4. Let me know if  did this correctly or if anyone else ses my post.

 Thanks Marquita Millan

Chapters 1-4 Motiation

  In chapter 1, we discuss and define the different components and aspects that surround motivation. Motivation can be defined as a movement of action and/or behavior which can stimulate a change in behavior and/or action as per out lecture power point slides. An individual must be motivated by different sources or individualized reasons that can influence their behavior as well as outcome which a person’s motives are targeted towards.

  Our environment has become our basis and foundation that we base our internal or external incentives. In motivation we often talk about push and pull motivation, which with our psychological and physiological components along with our goals and desire to want to do something in order to complete a task(s). The psychological and physiological aspect on motivation can be looked at as “motives” and goal orientation is geared towards “incentives”.
  I believe that in order for someone to complete a task at hand you have to have self determination and the will power to want to complete. For example when I read this chapter it reminded me of wanting to lose weight or either gain weight. A person has to have a positive psychological perspective in order to even jump start his or her weight lose program. There could be several things that may have intervened on a person’s life which can have taken a downfall or the turn for the worst and that individual is not going to have the energy or time to pursue a goal.
  I know I had a personal experience of just recently showing and telling others that I lack motivation in this area of weight loss because I want to lose weight because I am getting married next year but ever since I had went through surgery in November and lost my job it has really been tough to want to strive to lose the weight. I feel like I do not have it in me to want to do this but I know that I really do in a different aspect. Like that similar to the Aristotle's theory my trigger is the need for snacks which is my cause of my behavior of motivation. According to lecture slides our hypothalamus located in our brain is our trigger to hunger and plays a significant role.
  I found it interesting when read about "unconscious motivation" and how it can relate to Freud's theories of the conscious and the unconscious mind. Freud spoke of in this particular chapter on his viewpoint and the understanding of what he perceived to be motivating in humans. Metaphors of using analogies that consist of an idea of adjoining rooms in order to get a clearer picture of the motivation stands for through the conscious, preconscious, and unconscious was quite interesting. I think it's interesting because usually Freud would identify these components into the idea of a picture of an iceberg and how each part is idealized as the unconscious etc.
  Similar to a person’s need for self control of entertaining their trigger of food is similar to someone who may suffer from an addiction whether its substance and/or alcohol abuse or the use of both. I currently work as an as needed employee at an agency that deals with individuals that may have a history of both alcohol or substance abuse and these two components when mixed is a recipe for disaster. One of my clients just so happened to be a friend I went to high school with and could not believe the stories that she told me that she surrounded herself with cocaine, marijuana, and alcohol. She would often tell me that when she took drugs or the moment she knew that she was going to have drugs available to her. This is when she felt at her best both psychologically and physically she felt like that is when she looked beautiful because of her weight loss.