Description
This course provides a basis for understanding the ways in which biological processes, learning, and cognitive components interact to determine human motivation and emotions. Topical coverage includes, but is not limited to, the history of the study of motivation and emotion, drives and needs, hunger and eating, love and sexuality, arousal and attention, sleep and dreams, drug use and addiction, aggression and anger, stress and health, intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, negative and positive emotions. The course will enable students to identify and understand the major theories of motivation and emotion and apply theories to understanding their own behavior, thoughts, and feelings. Prerequisites: Psyc 101 or 203; sophomore standing. Offered: Spring, even years