Forum 2.5 - Similar Motivations?

9/30/2018

Guiding Thought Question: How are the motivations for humans to perform certain tasks going to be similar to the motivations for animals? How will they be different? Provide hypothetical examples to illustrate your point.

Today's Learning Objective: Students will learn about the psychological factors connected to the ideas of motivation and then examine examples of them by observing animals behavior in the zoo.

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Caitlin Copenhaver

10/2/2018 07:35:40 am

Animals and people are motivated by rewards, especially food rewards. They feel more motivated to do something when they know they'll get something for it. For example, a kid will be more willing to do their chores when they know they'll get a cookie. The main difference is it's typically easier to communicate with other people than animals and so it is probably easier to persuade them to do something by talking it out.

Blake Anderson

10/2/2018 07:38:49 am

Humans and animals are similar in many ways, one way is the motivation to survive. Just like humans, animals will do simple or even complicated tasks to get food and snacks which helps with survival. We think of it as jobs and we get paid for those jobs which allows us to buy food. Animals do tasks for direct payment of food, for example when you want your dog to do a trick you have a treat they can have only if they do that trick. The difference is we want more than just food so if a job gives us more money so we can buy not just food but items, it will motivate us more to get the higher paying job.

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