Assignment 4: Motives & Behavior
The text discusses several different categories of motives, including biological motives or drives (such as hunger, thirst, and sex), stimulus motives (such as exploration and curiosity, manipulation, and contact), and learned motives (including aggression, achievement, affiliation, and power). For this activity, you will be asked to think about your behavior and try to classify your motivations into one of the three types of motivation we learned about. Please complete the following three steps. Write directly into this document and upload the completed word document into the blackboard submission portal once you have completed it.
List 25 specific things you have done over the last 24 hours (e.g., got out of bed, brushing teeth, read textbook…)
Praying
Sleeping
Waking up
bathing
Eating breakfast
Washing utensils
Storytelling
Laughing
Having a walk
Coughing
Eating snacks
Reading a newspaper
Watching a movie
Reporting to daily job
Wearing a jacket because of freeze weather.
Drinking water
Browsing in the internet
Removing the sweater at noon because of a scorching sun
Opening the door to facilitate fresh air circulation
Lightening the lights in the evening
Running due to rain
Taking medicine
Singing
Dancing
Doing a class assignment
Now, categorize those behaviors into one of the three types/sources of motivation:
Biological
Stimulus
Learned
Taking medicine
Coughing
Sleeping
Waking up
bathing
Eating breakfast
Laughing
Having a walk
Drinking water
Eating snacks
Removing the sweater at noon because of a scorching sun
Opening the door to facilitate fresh air circulation
Lightening the lights in the evening
Running due to rain
Wearing a jacket because of freeze weather
Singing
Dancing
Doing a class assignment
Praying
Reading a newspaper
Watching a movie
Reporting to daily job
Browsing the internet
Storytelling
Washing utensils
How hard was it for you to classify? Were there behaviors that were easy? Were there behaviors that were hard?
Classifying the above types of motivation to some of the behavior was difficult while some of the behavior was easy. For example, laughing behavior can be biological, and a person or an event can stimulate you to laugh. In that account, some responses were difficult to classify. While some like drinking water is easy to sort because thirst in the human body is a psychological need and events or a person cannot teach you to drink or stimulate you to drink water. Furthermore, some behavior is apparent such as storytelling because to tell a story you must learn from someone. In summary, some actions are difficult to classify, while others are easy.