SayPro – Classification of Psychological Topics

📊 Categories: Motivation | Perception | Attitude

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🔵 Motivation

Topics related to what drives behavior, goals, and personal effort.

No.	Topic
1	Intrinsic motivation
2	Extrinsic motivation
3	Goal-setting theory
4	Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
5	Self-determination theory
6	Achievement motivation
7	Drive-reduction theory
8	Incentive theory of motivation
9	Motivation and emotion
10	Delayed gratification
11	Expectancy theory
12	Locus of control (internal/external)
13	Persistence and effort
14	Fear of failure
15	Flow state

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🟡 Perception

Topics related to how individuals interpret and make sense of sensory information.

No.	Topic
1	Visual perception
2	Auditory perception
3	Depth perception
4	Perceptual constancy
5	Selective attention
6	Gestalt principles
7	Sensory adaptation
8	Illusions and biases in perception
9	Perception and culture
10	Cognitive interpretation
11	Perception in communication
12	Emotion and perception
13	Stereotyping (as perceptual bias)
14	Perception and memory
15	Perceptual filtering

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🟢 Attitude

Topics focused on individual or group opinions, beliefs, and predispositions toward objects, people, or ideas.

No.	Topic
1	Attitude formation
2	Cognitive dissonance
3	Attitude change mechanisms
4	Persuasion techniques
5	Prejudice and bias
6	Social norms and attitudes
7	Explicit vs. implicit attitudes
8	Attitude-behavior consistency
9	Resistance to change
10	Role of media in shaping attitudes
11	Cultural influences on attitudes
12	Stereotype threat
13	Peer influence on attitude
14	Evaluative conditioning
15	Political and social attitudes

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✅ Notes for Use:

• These can be expanded to 100+ topics per category using GPT, as per SayPro requirements.
• Useful for workshops, research briefs, training manuals, and community engagement tools.
• Categories may overlap; for example, cognitive dissonance could relate to both attitude and motivation depending on the context.