Overjustification effect

Throughout the school day students come into contact with many different teachers. Each teacher has different expectations and requirements for their class. Each student in each class are unique individuals. They come from different backgrounds, have different home lives and different upbringings. Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs states individuals must have their basic needs meet first in order to advance forward toward self-actualization. Self-actualization includes creativity, problem solving, accepting, of facts, mortality, spontaneity, and lack of prejudice.(Burton,2012) Students must have their basic needs met at home before they are able to move forward in the learning process. For example, if student does not have food, water, and a home to go to, it will be hard for them to concentrate in class. Motivation is defined as a force or influence that causes someone to do something.(Merrian-Webster,n.d.) There are two main types of motivation, intrinsic and extrinsic. Intrinsic motivation comes from inside the individual. It is an internal drive to do well. Extrinsic motivation is achieved through outside rewards. Whether it be a pat on the back for a job well done or a pay raise at work, extrinsic motivation is an external drive. When discussing the basic principles of teaching and learning, one stands out as a key form of motivation for students in the classroom. “Behaviors that are reinforced (rewarded) are more likely to be learned.” (Swortzel,2014)Reinforcements…

Transformational leadership is about being a change agent within an organization and wanting to help the company be the best that is can be. This is synonymous with the idea of the corporate entrepreneur who is someone that is more focused on “what can be” than “what is”. The text states that, “some studies have found that transformational leadership positively correlates with higher organizational performance” (331). I believe this statement has truth to it because an organization that is run…

2014). It was found that positive intervention is effective in teaching and shaping appropriate behaviors. Research studies were able to successfully control noncompliant behaviors by presenting a desired reinforcement for a socially acceptable behavior. Studies Tangentially Related Strain, Wilson, and Dunlap reported on a research study that examined the effect of Prevent-Teach-Reinforce process on three large classrooms in the western part of the country. This additional studies were…

learning depends on the consequences tied to the behavior. In general there are two types of reinforcement: positive and negative. Positive reinforcement results when a behavioral consequence has strengthens the probability of the behavior being repeated; while negative reinforcement results when an undesirable consequence is withheld, strengthening the probability of the behavior being repeated. Negative reinforcement is often confused with punishment, but they are not the same. The difference…

Theoretical Evaluation There are many factors that contribute to the strengths and weaknesses of being part of an organization. Before anyone such employees, managers, or those in the upper positions can recommend ideas to improve the strengths or solutions to the weakness, they should first consider some of theoretical concepts within organizational behavior. Positive: The three positive factors that were most stated and highly rated in Raley’s employee survey include coworkers and their…

First, Brody highlights some effects of environmental degradation such as the difference in salt content in soil and drought. For example, the habitats of plants have changed so much that it delays their natural rate of growth (“Fears, Not Facts …”). However, she further describes that such conditions play no effect in G.M.O. crops because they contain devised characteristics of tolerance that ensure them to have a higher probability of long life and, thus, a better chance in a large production…

The Effects of Loss Tupac Shakur once said, “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive...” This quote states, that the things one may lose in life can cause great affect on the emotional and mental well-being of a person. How loss affects a character can be seen in both film and in books. The film, Shenandoah, which takes place in 1965 in America during the Civil War, reflects upon the Anderson family who tries their best to avoid the…

been blamed for causing some of the worst problems based on various fields such as social, political and economic effects that are proving difficult to control (Nelson, 2003). Some key factors that are expected to change due to environmental stress include rise in water level and climate change that will prove difficult to control. Water requirements are expected to change tremendously and push to a percentage of about forty percent. Food is one of the most critical aspects that should be…

is the belief it has an effect on IQ. For years the public has been informed about how marijuana has a negative effect on your IQ. As a teenager you are required to take a health class and in the class you are taught about the effects of marijuana. One of the side effects that teenagers are told is if they use marijuana as a teenager it will have a dramatic impact on their IQ, in a result, they will do poorly…

take long for the physical effects such as fatigue, nervousness, and increased heart rate to start and take effect. Many internal effects like higher blood pressure take effect much later than the physical effects and many times affects the health in a negative way. If a person does not start to relieve their stress by relaxing and lowering his blood pressure, could cause some severe long term damage to his health. Stress can also cause a person to have a lot of sleepless nights that will…