Motivation and emotion/Lectures/Unconscious motivation

Lecture 10: Unconscious motivation
This is the tenth lecture for the motivation and emotion unit of study.

Overview

This lecture:

• describes psychodynamic perspectives on unconscious motivation

Take-home message:

• Motivation often arises from sources outside of conscious awareness

Multimedia

• Psychological priming (Bang Goes the Theory, YouTube) (6:14 mins): shows three experiments which indicate that, when primed by handling money, people eat more chocolate, are less likely to help others, and can tolerate more pain.
• How your unconscious mind rules your behaviour) (Leonard Mlodinow, TEDxReset 2013, YouTube (12:51 mins): Examples of unconscious perception and decision making from a cognitive neuroscience perspective. Note: camera work and editing is poor.

Readings

1. Chapter 16: Unconscious motivation (Reeve, 2018)

Slides

• Lecture slides
  • Unconscious motivation (Google Slides)
• Handouts
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See also

• Images

Lectures

• Individual emotions (Previous lecture)
• Growth psychology (Next lecture)

Tutorial

• Time perspective

Wikipedia

• Id, ego and super-ego
• Mortality salience
• Object relations theory
• Priming
• Psychoanalysis
• Stages of ego development (Loevinger)
• Terror management theory
• Thought suppression

Wikiversity

• Death anxiety (Book chapter, 2016)
• Psychodynamic perspective of motivation (Book chapter, 2014)
• Subliminal priming and motivation (Book chapter, 2020)
• Terror management theory (Book chapter, 2020)
• Unconscious motivation (Book chapter, 2020)

Recording

• Lecture 10 recording (2020) - TBA
• Lecture 10 recording (2019)

External links

• New York City subway stairs (YouTube; 1:27 mins)
• Sigmund Freud's famous psychoanalytic couch (Freud Museum London)