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__**MOTIVATION**__ Ever feel like not doing something? Or wait till the last possible second to complete something that should have been taken care of ages ago? Do you ever wake up in the morning and feel like locking yourself in your room and never getting out of bed? Many people this day and age lack these kind of [|motivations] in our every day routine because "we just dont feel like it."

The key to motivation, is constantly controlling your mood, or state of mind. This allows a person to control when they do the activities thaty need or want to throughout the day. It could include eating the right foods, getting to work on time, exercising regularly, and even doing your homework every night before you watch your favorite t.v. show. Two important steps to controlling your emotions are State Generating and Anchoring. State generating is the process where an individual can put themselves in a specific emotional state in order to allow themselves to get a specific activity or job done when needed. Anchoring is when you finally do the wanted activity and an emotion comes over a persons body allowing the body to connect the emotion with activity. This completes the process.



There are three main types of motivations: 1. **Biological Motivations**: Example- homeostasis, which is the tendancy of all organisms to correct all imbalances and deviations from their normal state. [|Drive Reduction State:] created by Hull. 2. **Social Motivations**: learned by our interactions with other people. Murray: acquisition, conservance, order, construction, autonomy, affiliation, nurturance, play, achievement, recognition, defendence, dominance, aggression, rejection, succorance, and cognizance. Extrinsic: has a materialistic reward, not knowledge ( in the form of praise may lead to improvement) Intrinsic: knowledge reward

3. **Emotional Motivation**: Sometimes emotions act as biological drives, or doing something because it feels right. Innate: Born with these biological responses or emotions.

Taking in information: selective attention 1. Information that has to do with your needs 2. Strange and Novel 3. Something that interests you feature extraction- locating the outstanding characteristics on incoming information. Storing Information: There are three types 1. Sensory Storage: photographic memory 2. Short Term Memory: vey limited, is where the things you have in your conscious mind at all times are held. [|MEMORY GAME] 3. Long Term Memory: Stored information for future use. Other types of memory: Semantic: for language; shared. Episodic: personal events lived through; memories of ones own life. Declaritive: you have memories you have lived through, and are conscious of it. Procedural: unconscious and is skill based
 * __MEMORY__**

When there are problems retrieving information this often causes [|Forgetfulness].
 * 1) **Memories are constructions made in accordance with present needs, desires, influences, etc.**
 * 2) **Memories are often accompanied by feelings and emotions.**
 * 3) **Memory usually involves awareness of the memory** (Schacter 1996).

Ever felt like one more even was going to send you crashing? Ever felt like your day has been the worst and you feel completely overloaded? These may be strong symptoms of //__stress__//. //__Stress__// - the physical pressure, pull, or other force exerted on one thing by another; strain.
 * __Stress__**


 * __Stress overload__**
 * Anxiety and panic attacks
 * Felling constant pressure, hassle, hurry
 * Irritability or moodiness
 * Physical symptoms include; stomach problems, headaches, chest pain, allergic reactions, eczema, asthma, sleep deficiency etc…
 * Smoking, drinking, overeating, drugs
 * Sadness, depression


 * __Stress control__**
 * Keep from over scheduling
 * Be realistic (don’t try to be perfect)
 * Get a good night of sleep
 * Learn to relax
 * Treat your body well
 * Watch what you think about


 * __Building resilience__**
 * Change is a challenging and normal part of life.
 * See setbacks and problems as temporary and solvable
 * Believe in your goals
 * Take action against stress issues
 * Have a support system
 * Participate in relaxation


 * Specific idea for helping stress is exercise, it relieves pent up energy and is a constructive way to relieve stress.**

__Learning-__ the act or process of acquiring knowledge or skill.
 * __Psychology of learning__**

Learning ranges from habitual classical conditioning to complex activity such as play displayed by intelligent animals. 1. Habitual 2. Sensitization 1. Operant conditioning 2. Classical conditioning 3. Imprinting
 * Types of learning**
 * Simple non associative learning
 * Associative learning
 * Observant learning
 * Play
 * Multimedia learning
 * Electronic learning
 * Machine learning


 * Approaches to learning**
 * Rote learning
 * Informal learning
 * Formal learning
 * Non-formal learning and combined approaches
 * Learning forms**
 * Knowledge- remembering information
 * Comprehension- explaining the meanings of information
 * Application- using abstract in concrete situations
 * Analysis- breaking something down to form one concrete idea
 * Synthesis- putting learned parts together

project sites: [|www.kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/emotions/**stress**.html] [|www.medicinenet.com/**stress**/article.htm] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Learning Pictures:** Kotelnikov, Vadim. "1000 Ventures." 2008. 20 Jan. 2008 .