What is Motivation

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Why is motivation important. Historical and content perspective on motivation. Process perspective on motivation. Motivation strategies .

-- Peter Siaw (nhsiaw@tm.net.my), November 16, 2002

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I think your best course would be to look at a textbook on motiviation that contains an historical component. At root motviation is just the study of the *causes* of behavior. Call it "motivation" or sall it something else, but it should seem obvious that the study ofthe causes of behavior are an important topic in psychoolgy.

-- Christopher Green (christo@yorku.ca), November 17, 2002.

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