PSYCH211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Clothespin, Ball Pit, Motivation
18 Oct 2016
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Co(cid:374)trol situatio(cid:374), thro(cid:449)s (cid:272)lothespi(cid:374), does(cid:374)"t rea(cid:272)h for it, does(cid:374)"t help: cabinet- runs into door, child helps open the door so he can put the magazines inside. Experimenter is organizing cans, child is playing, experimenter as back turned, can rolls off table. Compare children who received a reward and those who did not, this does not effect helping. Children perform an intrinsically motivating actively (drawing) Children can draw in order to receive reward. Children are less likely to draw in the absence of rewards. If you really love drawing, and someone starts paying you to draw, it may decrease your motivation to draw: participants: 20 month old children, treatment phase. Group b no reward: test phase. Children with no reward were more likely to help than children who got rewards. Challenge the view that it is only society to teach altruism. Go back in time, see what our evolutionary ancestors. If we find altruism in only humans, it was learned socially.
