Psychology of Learning: Online Professor Worksheet 5: Affect and Motivation in Learning

Psychology of Learning:  Online

Professor

Worksheet 5: Affect and Motivation in Learning

Please download this worksheet, review the lecture slide, and read chapter 6.  Then, complete the assignment.  When completing your assignment, please type in bold so it is easy for me to distinguish both the questions and your answers. 

If you can’t find the answers in the lecture notes or the reading material, please research the answers online. 

Lecture/Reading/Internet Questions:

How do learning and memory work together?

What does the Yerkes-Dodson law tell us about level of anxiety and learning?

What are flashbulb memories?

Imagine you LOVE playing the piano. You practice all the time and often feel very good about your mastery of the piano. A friend encourages you to participate in a musical competition – you begin practicing even more than before. You are very excited about the competition! The competition takes place and you do quite well and earn both a trophy and accolades. What is likely to occur following the competition? What is this tendency called?

Can emotional learning occur without conscious recollection? Please provide an example.

Imagine I assigned a 10-page research paper due next week – what are some examples of self-handicapping?

If you were going to design a task in a way that enhanced motivation what are some things that you would consider? What is the general term for doing this?

Video Questions: Please watch the following videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbfpyJfI1ho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNhk3owF7RQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM2wIS8UejE

Do children need to learn emotional skills? Or do these skills come naturally?

What is the argument against social and emotional learning? Include your own thoughts on the issue.

What is the most important skill taught in social and emotional learning?

Describe an (appropriate) emotional event that took place at least a year or two ago. Do you remember it well?

When you feel rejected what parts of your brain regions become active?

Do pain killers help with emotional pain? What does this suggest about emotional pain?

Is social emotional learning controlled by the same parts of the brain as analytical learning?

What happens to you emotionally when you begin thinking analytically?

What is learning for teaching?

What does Phineas Gage teach us about personality?

Please describe the role of frontal lobes? What can happen as people age?

Please describe the study that Bill von Hippel used to test reversal learning. (The study which involved groups of friends.)