Provide an Example from Your Own Experience of How Your

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Essay

Provide an example from your own experience of how your motivation and behavior were enhanced or reduced in a classroom (or employment)situation.Analyze the experience using the principles of the expectancy model.Be sure to label and identify the various components of the model in your explanation.

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Definitions:

Practical Wisdom

The ability to make the right judgment about what to do in a given situation; often associated with virtues and ethical living.

Aristotle

Ancient Greek philosopher and scientist, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great, known for his writings on physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology.

Quandary Ethics

A framework for addressing ethical decisions that present a significant conflict of principles or values, leading to uncertainty on the right course of action.

Golden Mean

In philosophy, particularly Aristotelian ethics, the desirable middle between two extremes, one of excess and the other of deficiency.