Motivation differences in Adult vs Child Learning

ADULT AND CHILD MOTIVATION Adult and Child Motivation

Adult and Child Motivation

Earlier understanding on human motivation was based on early psychological milestones : Freudian Theory of Id , Behaviorist Theory of Watson , Humanistic Theory of Maslow . For example , according to Freud the basic biological urges , that he called id ' were instinctive by nature and drove human behavior according to uncontrollable urges , i .e negative ' urges that humans needed to learn how to control . Freud speculated further that human ego ' was there to subdue (i .e control ) those negative ' urges thus rendering

the owner more socially adaptable (Pelham , 1997 . Under the same umbrella , there are instinct theories of human motivation , so progressively mentioned in the work of Stacey , DeMartino , Stacey , and DeMartino (1958 . In it , these particular authors take the readers back to what was known Evolutionary Theory (a .k .a . Pawlov 's Theory of Evolution , and yet , so masterfully suggest that human motivation can be viewed through these lenses . In the same arena the readers can place what contemporary psychologists understand under Need Theory of Human Motivation . Referring back to Maslow , they might recall that he developed that particular milestone under guidance of human needs . In particular , he saw the hierarchy of human needs in the form of the pyramid in which the bottom portion occupied the most primary ones

According to Pelham (1997 , Watson and his followers maintained that humans are born with a blank state ' which , as the human child grows his mind is filled with the content influenced by the environmental factors . To extrapolate , their perspective suggested that external stimuli are responsible for the human motivation . It is curious to inquire further , would the human produce motivational impulses if completely isolated for an extended period of time ? If the human motivation is viewed only from behaviorist perspective , the answer to this question can become logical as follows . If deprived from any external stimuli from his /her birth , the human will be completely and absolutely amotivated in every aspect of his or her life . Such supposition was evidenced as wrong through and with research on stimuli deprived children (Pelham , 1997

Pelham (1997 ) also argued that humanistic psychologists discussed human motivation from the self-actualization point of view . He made a case that every one of us has the internal need to learn to naturally develop self be it conditioned or vicarious learning situations

Maslow and Rogers gave a thrust to a completely new group of psychologists who began considering a combination of cognitive social-cognitive , and social-behaviorists angles on the human motivation . The names of the motivational theories , as descriptive as they are , imply on important differentiation . Each framework refers to the specific perspective , as in human consciousness being the great part of the motivational impulse , or human consciousness being influenced by a social structure , or even social structure having a full impact on the human motivation thus his or her behavior

From this perspective , one would find a great point of interest to consider that humanistic and Gestalt theories tend...