Monday, December 1, 2008

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Motivation
Motivation is a main cause of drive mechanism in creatures’ behaviour. That is to say, it is the reason of any changes on the creatures’ activities. However motivation is a very broad topic to discuss, it has a simple general definition which is an incentive that led to change or movement in order to achieve the goals. Although the definition was simple, to define the goals is a controversial aspect of motivation’s debates. Motivation is compounded of many external and internal derivations that each of them is playing a role as an incentive in creatures’ activities. The inference of the motivation would be various in different ideology and some ideology might believe that motivation is exist on the all motives and movements throughout the universe included objects and creatures. This article will be discussed just about human motivation, not objects or other creatures.
In spite of motivation’s theories are varied among the psychologists and none of the theories has been completely accepted, the main trend of the theory is almost uniformed. Motivation mainly divided into two major fields: intrinsic and extrinsic, each filed may have a same influence on human behaviours, which is change in order to settle their anxiety down. Intrinsic motivations are usually involved all inner stimulations such as desire, ambition, interest, impulse, spur. Extrinsic motivations are outer incentives such as incitement, provocation, urge, inducement, push. Therefore, it is possible to say that all exterior reasons which caused interior motivations can be classified as extrinsic; on the other hand, the result of them classified in the intrinsic motivation. With an example the discussion would be much clear: a higher salary for a job seeker would be an extrinsic motive, meanwhile the interest to reach a higher paid job causes an intrinsic motive.
Abraham H. Maslow (1908- 70), as a known psychologist, was theorized motivation in a pyramid with six levels. He believed that these six levels would define reasons of all human behaviours. The Maslow’s theory of six major incentives would be divided to first: Psychological; second: security and safety; third: love and feelings of belonging; fourth: competence, prestige, and esteem; fifth: self-fulfilment; and last: curiosity and need to understand.
1. Psychological: According to Maslow the first and the most important motivations are psychological incentives.
2. Security and safety: Security is the second important motivation in the human activities. Namely, after psychological incentives subsided, security and need to be safe is vividly indicated.
3. Love and feelings of belonging: In Maslow’s theory love and the feeling of belonging is the third importance of human motivations. On the other word, a calm mind person in a safe circumstance would be able to notice the love and feeling of belonging, thus by Maslow’s theory.
4. Competence, prestige, and esteem: As it has been appeared, the trend of the motivations is from expressive to impassive incentives. To be precise, after the hunger of all inner requests settled human being initiates improving the former ways and create a easier ways to live.
5. Self-fulfilment: Human during improvements of the old ways would have noticed the self-fulfilment, and self-improvements that led to effort for more improvements and create a new ways, meantime, art is emerging. Art is in about the highest rank of civilization. Art is visualized when human has provided all its needs and would be able to react to the necessity of beauty.
6. Curiosity and need to understand: as the last incentive for motivations, the deep-rooted feels of understanding is appeared when human can think about the future. Need to understand is more than creation. Usually, invention is happened by necessities or accidents, but when human has a hunger to know more there should not have necessity irritated them. Following the incentives of curiosity and knowing more happened when human, by choice, responded to incentives that are not really exist, though, potentially exist.
To be continued….

1 comment:

Joon (Han, Kyeongjoon) said...

Hi, Meisam.
You did your homework.
Do you have spare time?