Talk:Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience/Motivation and Emotion

Hi there! If there are still some questions, look on the main page of CPCN. Andrej and me put some links there! Lg Iroewer

What do you think about adding some research about attention into your chapter? Iroewer

Wo ist denn euer Text??? Gruppen wie 'Overall Structure' und 'Crossreferences' sind abhaengig davon, dass euer Text, auch wenn er noch nicht ganz fertig ist, schon ins Internet ladet!! Es waere auch moeglich gewesen noch ein Review zu bekommen bzw. dass andere auch von ausserhalb ihren Anteil liefern. Das ist ja der eigentliche Sinn an solchen Projekten!! Iroewer

My thoughts on "Motivation and Emotion"
I don't doubt that the author of this page knows his/her stuff when it comes to "Motivation and Emotion." My problem is with how the majority of the sentences are constructed. Basic rules of grammar are broken at every turn. Now if this was prose by F. Scott Fitzgerald, then I'd leave it alone. However, this is supposed to be more like a textbook if I'm not mistaken. One example of syntax error is a sentence that I edited. It read, "If a person is depleted of energy, dehydrated, or freezing..." I'm going to sound nitpicky here, but as far as I'm concerned rules are rules, and the way this sentence was written makes it sound like a person could be depleted of dehydrated. It's as if energy is the first in a series of things of which a person could be depleted. When it comes to what the reader might be thinking, the writer should take nothing for granted. So I edited the beginning of that sentence and it now reads, "If a person is dehydrated, freezing, or exhausted..." I think that sounds much better and makes more sense.

I sent an email to the powers that be at wikibooks about such grammatical mistakes, but that was before I realized that I could give my thoughts in this method. I'm not trying to belittle anyone's writing. I'm just trying to make things better. I'm sure you all take pride in the knowledge you have on the various subjects displayed here. I think you should also take pride in the way you communicate such knowledge to people like me. When in doubt about the correctness of a sentence, just ask someone.

I applaud the hard work put forth by anyone who shares their knowledge on a subject like psychology so please keep up the good work. Who knows, if I could assemble all of my knowledge on grammar and English, maybe I could provide an addition to the Language section of wikibooks.

Thank you for your consideration... Dpepper73 (discuss • contribs) 09:02, 22 June 2012 (UTC)


 * You are free to correct or reword any sentences you think should be improved. That is a fundamental aspect of Wikibooks. Recent Runes (discuss • contribs) 22:41, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

Hello. I just read this article and I am finding it difficult to read. It is not up to date. Some of the sources are over ten years old. I would also recommend finding some more pictures to balance it out a bit more. Sections about brain structure could benefit with a picture. There are also problems with the grammar and some "run on" sentences. I recommend looking at some more recent sources. I believe that will help organize some of the out of date material. I also checked the two links at the end of the article and neither of them are working. I think that this article needs some serious revision, but could be very helpful once it has some more recent resources and more sections actually devoted to the topics of emotions and motivation.

Carys Bratt (discuss • contribs) 01:03, 16 October 2019 (UTC)