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Humanistic theory looks at the person  as a whole and as an individual. It states that each person is unique and exercises their own free will to be motivated and reach goals in their lives. A. Maslow believed that people have a hierarchy of their needs from basic to complex and that peoples actions are motivated by these needs, whether psychological  or physiological. People have deficiency needs and growth needs, and the hierarchy of one’s needs determines the motivation to learn and change.

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Behavioral theory states that rewards impact our motivation.  Peoples behavior is  influenced by interactions with their environment.  It is the theory of how peoples behavior is  and can be motivated by a reward  or consequences process. The reward can be  intrinsic or extrinsic, it can be anything from a. cookie to bragging rights, but is a motivational force driving human behavior. It can also be something negative a person has experiences as a result of behavior that they want to make sure to never repeat again and avoid at all costs. In learning,  it has been shown with praise and positive reinforcement students are more goal driven and successful than when  there is no pay on the back and or only negative feedback while learning.

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Social theory is the  idea that people learn from  observing the people around us and from our environment. There are four stages  which determine whether  behaviors  are acquired or not, they are attention- meaning we take notice of something, retention- being able to encode the behavior, reproduction - being able to copy cat the behavior , and motivation - achieving the behavior, incentives and consequences can influence this learning behavior. Psychologists A. Bandura and
B.F skinner believed that we learn from example and by observing. Many cognitive factors also influence whether a behavior is adopted by the learner or not.

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Cognitive theory states that people are influenced and motivated by their thoughts and perceptions.  The motivation process states that each situation is different depending on the persons experiences and the person experiencing things, and the we first have thoughts, then we have feelings , next comes some type of behavior, and that behavior leads to an outcome. The outcome  can be positive or negative based on whether our thought process is positive or negative. Cognitive theory is about how a persons motivation and perception,  can affect things in their lives based on the way they approach it or the stance they take after thinking.

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I believe there are parts of all these motivational theories that affect my life, that I use and have learned from. At the start I did not think social learning theory had very much to do with myself because I spend most of my time alone.; but upon deeper thought my parents were very good examples for me. My father raised us Italian style, to be good, to be honorable, to not stoop to anyone’s low level, to help others and do the best we can at everything we do, to not waste time regretting and to learn everything you can, among many other qualities. So I realized, ok social learning totally shaped me and has impacted  the person that I am. I would say cognitive is my strongest theory  .  As for the motivational techniques, I guess I must be a chameleon, because reading them I notice I do all of those things.  Some more than others like crossing of things  I have completed I don’t do that one so much other than verbally confirming to myself ok that’s done , what’s next. I spent innumerable hours studying music and learning piano from the time I was 4 up to current, so I learned deletion works, practice does make perfect, and breaking things down into smaller sections is a very good way to learn new music you want to play. I can sit and play piano for at least two hours with no music in front of myself. When I meet people I like to make some kind of association with their names so that I catalog it and don’t forget, sometimes it takes a minute, but Ai have a pretty good memory  and I would say I used almost all the motivational techniques in my life already when I do creative things and other things. I have also learned that for myself , most of the time people are just a distraction from art I could be creating or something I could b learning. I would like to keep learning as many things as I can that interest me and also to find the things I am best at and be very good at them all. Sometimes when you are multi-talented it’s hard to focus on one talent and zone in on that one direction.