Human behavior

MOTIVATIONAL THEORY ABRAHAM MASLOW HIERACHY The concept of motivation has been defined as the psychological process that gives behavior purpose and direction (Kreitner, 1995). This motivation is to understand what drives the employee nor the people motivates to push their performance in work. Motivation is important because under an optimal conditions, effort can often be increased and sustained or in other simple word according to Smith 1994 (Smith G. P., 1994) , we need motivated employees…

agentic state; this is referred to as an agentic shift (Milgram, 1963). A consequence of this shift is that an individual no longer feels responsible for their actions. Instead, they can blame those in higher authority. To better understand the behavior of the participants in Milgram’s experiment, it is important to explore the context of their actions. One such way…

classroom, and the overall color and brightness of the classroom. Ms. Firestone states that a negative learning environment or setting that adversely affects student learning, can affect the students in many ways such as low student achievement, poor behavior, student anxiety, or depression. Positive learning environment, or one that allows students to feel comfortable and confident as learners. One way to build positive learning environment is to know the effects of the colors of the wall, the…

The fundamental attribution error is “the tendency to overestimate the extent to which people’s behavior is due to internal, dispositional factor and to underestimate the role of situational factors” (Akert, 89). In other words, we are more likely to assume that a behavior is as a result of an internal attribution, instead of an external attribution. Internal attribution is “the inference that a person is behaving in a certain way because…

Christopher A. Mallett, wrote the article called Truancy: It’s Not About Skipping School. He defines truancy as “the habitual, unexcused absences from school, exceeding the maximum set by state law” (Mallett, 339). He explains that this is a problem because the appropriate approaches are not being taken to prevent this action among children and adolescents. Two very different approaches have been examined and we must use examples to discover the best way to fix the problem of truancy. It is…

Motivation is the activation of goal-oriented behavior. It is what causes us to act and think. Every human being needs to be motivated in order for them to achieve their goals and dreams. Motivation is said to be intrinsic and extrinsic. • Intrinsic Motivation: It is the Internal desires to perform a particular task, people do certain activities because it gives them pleasure, develops a particular skill, or it was raised through their mental desires. • Extrinsic Motivation: Extrinsic…

Conformity is the process in which one adjusts one's behavior, values and beliefs to those which one hold as acceptable by other people. This change is in response to real or imagined group pressure.Real group pressure involving the physical presence of others and imagined group pressure involving the pressure of social norms / expectations. Externally, one picks one's clothes by the impression they make on others, not by one's own preference (which is never allowed to develop). One attempts…

Bundy. From the looks of it, it was said that Ted grew up in the middle-class working family environment. At an early age Bundy revealed a strange interest in the macabre. When he turned 3 he started to show interest in knives and sharp objects. As a child Bundy was a reluctant, but also a very intelligent kid who did exceedingly well in school, but he did not engage well with students or peers at school. As he got older there was a darker side of him that started to develop. Bundy did strange…

Daniel Ritchie Professor Ms. Macdonald English 26 October 1015 The effect of moon phases on human behavior. The term “Lunar effect” refers to the connection between the moon phases and human behavior. The recorded statistics were recorded in correlation with the phases of the moon. Mainly focusing on abnormal behavior during the full moon. Violence during the full or close to the full moon. 11,613 cases of aggravated assault in a five year period happened more often around the time of…

motivation, the ultimate goal in children’s education is to have them learn. By giving them money, their goal will change from learning new things to gaining money and this can even drive them to cheat academically just to get the money. Instinctually, Humans should be striving for knowledge because that is how we advanced so far in society. In the far future, the world will not improve if the only thing people care about is money and not in discovering new ways to progress. Parents should teach…