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Focus on the five different perspectives of motivation: Students are required to evaluate how each perspective explains motives for
eating food and explain motives for deviate eating behaviour, that is, a preference for eating fast food. Students are required to recommend the best
perspective(s) for understanding the motivation for- and studying the behaviour of- the modern day phenomena of preferring to eat high salt, sugar, and
saturated-fat (SSS) fast food, and the ordinary motivated behaviour, eating for hunger. You are required to transform Westen’s descriptions and applications
from chapter 10 on ordinary human sex behaviour and a ‘disturbed’ presentation using a condom for HIV protection to the topic of eating food and the
modern day phenomena, eating SSS fast food.
Follow these steps for each perspective in psychology. (Evolutionary perspective (EP) psychodynamic perspective (PP) behaviourist perspective (BP) cognitive
perspective (CP) Hierarchy of needs perspective (HoNP)
You only need to do the perspectives and summary. No introduction reference page, title page, glossary etc needs to be done
• Read the EP/PP/BP/CP/HoNP perspective of psychology (i.e., Chapter 1).
• Close-read the EP/PP/BP/CP/HoNP perspective of motivation (i.e., Chapter 10).
• Consider the utility of the Interim Summary in Burton et al. (2012).
• Make notes relevant to the eight Boxes or Items in the marking criteria.
• Read evolutionary theory on why people fail to protect themselves from HIV in burton.
• How would they study this? Read “characteristics of good psychological research” (i.e., Chapter 2) and consider the research method, variables, and
hypothesis/research question that an EP/PP/BP/CP/HoNP psychologist would use in a HIV motivation study.
• Consider how an EP/PP/BP/CP/HoNP psychologist would see the theory motives for eating, and the theory motives for failure to protect yourself
from obesity by not eating SSS food.
• What research method, variables, and hypothesis/research question would an EP/PP/BP/CP/HoNP psychologist use to study motivated eating
behaviour?
• What research method, variables, and hypothesis/research question would an EP/PP/BP/CP/HoNP psychologist use to study motivated aberrant-
eating behaviour?
• List methods strengths and shortcomings. Consider using Table 2.1 in Burton et al. (2012).
• List conceptual strengths and shortcomings.
• List the merits (i.e., strengths minus shortcomings): Use “outweighs”.
• Make an explicit recommendation, “So I do not recommend the evolutionary …”
For BP and CP only; SEPARATE the explain eating food (theory, research method, variables, hypothesis) from the explain eating SSS food (theory, research
method, variables, hypothesis) sections of the essay because they don’t want them to merge into a single action. Use my glossary entry at the bottom of this
document as definitions of what i want your strengths, merits, recommendations, etc, actions to be doing
Abstract, references, citations, and writing style including:
• Indent first line of each new paragraph.
• concluding paragraph are each 100–150 words in length.
• Double-line spacing is used (with no extra line spacing between paragraphs).
• At least four paragraphs (300–350 words) provided on each perspective.
• Correct use of grammar, numbers, point form, spelling, and/or abbreviations.
• Intext citations, secondary citations, and quotations are correctly formatted.
• APA style !!!
Evolutionary Perspective:
? Describe the perspective and its historical origins
? Explain the EATING theory mechanism from the perspective
? Describe an EATING study (research method, variables, hypothesis)
? Explain the EATING SSS FOOD theory mechanism from the perspective
? Describe an EATING SSS FOOD study (research method, variables, hypothesis)
? List ONE methodological and ONE conceptual strength of the perspective
? List ONE methodological and ONE conceptual shortcoming of the perspective
? Assess the merits. Display your recommendation on the perspective
Psychodynamic Perspective:
? Describe the perspective and its historical origins
? Explain the EATING theory mechanism from the perspective
? Describe an EATING study (research method, variables, hypothesis)
? Explain the EATING SSS FOOD theory mechanism from the perspective
? Describe an EATING SSS FOOD study (research method, variables, hypothesis)
? List ONE methodological and ONE conceptual strength of the perspective
? List ONE methodological and ONE conceptual shortcoming of the perspective
? Assess the merits. Display your recommendation on the perspective.
Behaviourist Perspective:
? Describe the perspective and its historical origins
? Explain the EATING theory mechanism from the perspective
? Describe an EATING study (research method, variables, hypothesis)
? Explain the EATING SSS FOOD theory mechanism from the perspective
? Describe an EATING SSS FOOD study (research method, variables, hypothesis)
? List ONE methodological and ONE conceptual strength of the perspective
? List ONE methodological and ONE conceptual shortcoming of the perspective
? Assess the merits. Display your recommendation on the perspective
Cognitive Perspective :
? Describe the perspective and its historical origins
? Explain the EATING theory mechanism from the perspective
? Describe an EATING study (research method, variables, hypothesis)
? Explain the EATING SSS FOOD theory mechanism from the perspective
? Describe an EATING SSS FOOD study (research method, variables, hypothesis)
? List ONE methodological and ONE conceptual strength of the perspective
? List ONE methodological and ONE conceptual shortcoming of the perspective
? Assess the merits. Display your recommendation on the perspective
Hierarchy of needs perspective:
? Describe the perspective and its historical origins
? Explain the EATING theory mechanism from the perspective
? Describe an EATING study (research method, variables, hypothesis)
? Explain the EATING SSS FOOD theory mechanism from the perspective
? Describe an EATING SSS FOOD study (research method, variables, hypothesis)
? List ONE methodological and ONE conceptual strength of the perspective
? List ONE methodological and ONE conceptual shortcoming of the perspective
? Assess the merits. Display your recommendation on the perspective
Be careful with Maslow’s theory – think critically – ONLY the best will see that Maslow’s theory is a mud-guard
Conclusion:
• Restate a strength and a shortcoming of each of the 5 perspectives
• Outline which perspective(s) is best for examining eating behaviours
• Display a personal point on the topic to close the essay
• Recycle key points for perspectives 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 from earlier in your essay.
• Be concise with your précis of a key strength and a key shortcoming.
• Make an explicit overall recommendation (i.e., which perspective do your endorse?)
Explicitly state or revise your personal point about this essay topic to close the assignment
Glossary
Behaviourist perspective of motivation – Pioneered by John Watson and B. F. Skinner, behaviourist perspective; also called behaviourism, focuses on the
relationship between observable behaviours and environmental stimuli. (Westen, Burton, & Kowalski, 2012, p. 12).
Cognitive perspective of motivation –Focuses on the way individuals perceive, process, and retrieve information. (Westen, Burton, & Kowalski, 2015, p. 16).
Eating – The act of one that eats. (The Oxford thesaurus, 1991, p.143).
Evolutionary perspective of motivation – Charles Darwin theory suggests; psychological processes relates to the evolutionary development of natural
selection. (Burton, Westen, & Kowalski, 2015, p. 18).
Hierarchy of needs perspective of motivation – Maslow’s theory that one’s needs are arranged hierarchy from physiological, safety, belongingness, esteem,
and self-actualisation. (Burton, Westen, & Kowalski, 2015, p. 373).
Hypothesis – “A hypothesis is a tentative belief about the relationship between two or more variables” (Westen, Burton, & Kowalski, 2012, p. 44).
Merits – Merits are the author’s assessment of the magnitude of strengths of a perspective minus the magnitude of the shortcomings of the same
perspective. Merits provide the means for making a critical judgement about whether to recommend or not recommend a perspective of motivation has
been made (PSY2020, 2016a).
Merits assessment – A merits assessment is an explicit statement made by an author that shows a reader how the author has come to make a decision
whether to recommend or not recommend a perspective of motivation. It states how the magnitude of strengths and the magnitude of shortcomings have
been assessed (PSY2020, 2016a).
