
Lecture Description
Feeling motivated? Even if you are, do you know why? The story of Aaron Ralston can tell us a lot about motivation. In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank tells us Ralston's story, as well as 4 theories of motivation and some evolutionary perspectives on motivation.
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Table of Contents
Four Theories of Motivation:
Evolutionary Perspective 1:38:22
Drive-Reduction 2:45:10
Optimal Arousal 3:38:21
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs 4:49:04
How Sex, Hunger, and the Need to Belong Motivate us 5:29:02
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Course Index
- Intro to Psychology
- Psychological Research
- The Chemical Mind
- Meet Your Master: Getting to Know Your Brain
- Sensation & Perception
- Homunculus
- Perceiving is Believing
- Consciousness
- To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
- Altered States
- How to Train a Brain
- The Bobo Beatdown
- How We Make Memories
- Remembering and Forgetting
- Cognition: How Your Mind Can Amaze and Betray You
- Language
- The Power of Motivation
- The Growth of Knowledge
- Monkeys and Morality
- Adolescence
- Rorschach & Freudians
- Measuring Personality
- Controversy of Intelligence
- Brains Vs. Bias
- Feeling All the Feels
- Emotion, Stress and Health
- Let's Talk About Sex
- Psychological Disorders
- OCD & Anxiety Disorders
- Depressive and Bipolar Disorders
- Trauma & Addiction
- Schizophrenia & Dissociative Disorders
- Eating and Body Dysmorphic Disorders
- Personality Disorders
- Getting Help - Psychotherapy
- Biomedical Treatments
- Social Thinking
- Social Influence
- Prejudice & Discrimination
- Aggression V. Altruism
Course Description
In this crash course series hosted by Hank Green, learn the basics of psychology in videos lasting about 10 minutes each, covering the fundamental ideas of psychological science.
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