The Psychology of Motivation: Understand the Basics

Motivation is a mental and emotional state. So, we need to understand the basics of the psychology of motivation and how motivation works in the brain.

That's what we will do in this video.

Watching this video is worth 2 Management Courses CPD Points*.
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This video is part of course module number 3.7.1
Program 3: Managing and Leading Individuals
Course 7: Motivation
Section 1: The Basics of Motivation

Primary videos that precede this video include:

Primary videos that follow this video include:
Process Models of Motivation
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Content Models of Motivation
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LESSON NOTES
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Motivation links the part of your brain that deals with emotions to those that:
- do the thinking and
- do the doing

A simple model of the brain is called the Triune Brain model. It suggests that the brain has three levels:
1. the hindbrain - responsible for the basic functions that keep us alive
2. the midbrain - that is the seat of our emotions
3. the forebrain - which is where we carry out thinking, planning, and other higher functions

This helps us understand the basic psychology of motivation
Motivation can be a positive, towards sensation or a negative (aversive) away-from sensation.

Fear
Fear is the single most powerful emotion, so aversive motivations tend to be the strongest. This is the fight or flight or fright syndrome. This is why angry, aggressive, or hectoring approaches don’t motivate. Unless you want the fight or flight response (and have trained out the fright response of freezing), they don’t work. They only have a use in limited contexts, like certain military situations and emergencies.

Positive psychological approaches are those that make someone feel good, like:
- Reinforcement of Successes
- Gently challenging limiting beliefs

There are two psychological approaches to understanding motivation:
- Content the things that motivates us – often referred to as drives)
- Process - the mechanisms for how we are motivated

Across this course/playlist, you will find videos that discuss models and theories for both of these:
- Section 3.7.2 covers process models
- Section 3.7.3 covers content models

RECOMMENDED EXERCISE
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1. It's a great exercise to spend some time thinking about what you know about motivation, and how it fits with the ideas about the psychology of motivation, in this video. (3 MC CPD Points)

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For a solid introduction to motivation:

The best of modern thinking on motivation, in accessible business books. These are all modern classics:

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