4. Motivation is the key to success in learning.
MOTIVATION
Motivation is the process of initiating a conscious and purposeful
action
Motive means an urge (drive or force) or combination of urges, to
induce conscious or
purposeful action.
Motivation is a goal directed and need satisfying behaviour
Definitions:
Motivation may be defined as goal seeking or goal directed behaviour or
activity.
Behaviour is a function of the person, which is interaction within a
situation
5. Factors for the Motivation or motivated
behaviour are:
1. Environmental conditions
2. Internal urge
3. Incentive awards
6. THEORIES OF MOTIVATION
MASLOW’S’ CLASSIFICATIONOF NEEDS:
According to the famous psychologist Abraham Maslow (1954), the needs
in order of
importance to individuals i.e. the fulfillment of needs starts from the first
order and if first
order needs are fulfilled the individual thinks of second order and so on as
given below
1. Physiological needs: These are called first order needs.These
needs are necessary
for survival of the individual e.g. food, clothing, shelter etc. these are most
important, if
these needs are fulfilled then only the individual steps in to second order
needs
2. Safety needs: These are second order needs.These needs are for
the security of the
individual from physical, physiological, economic and social viewpoints e.g.
protection
from danger, threatening etc
7. 3. Social needs:These are third order needs. Man is a social
animal and has an inherent
desire to be with others in some form e.g. friendship,
company etc.These are also
called response needs.
4. Esteem needs:These are fourth order needs.The
individual likes to get appreciation
and recognition from others in the society e.g. power, status,
prestige etc
5. Self-actualization:These are called last order or fifth
order or highest order needs. It
is self-realization and knowing self or the ultimate purpose of
human being e.g. what is
human being, how he should live, what is his purpose of living
etc.
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10. Importance of motivation in agricultural extension:
1.Society composes of individuals. Everyone is different from the other
and the degree of difference is based on the relative importance
each one of us assigns to the different motivating forces and to
the various interests we have, which impel us to act as we do
2.The job of the extension worker is to understand the basic wants
or incentives of the people with whom he is working
3. He should show the leaner how to satisfy these basic wants by
learning new things (i.e. by adopting new methods or practices)
11. 4.The extension worker should find the personal goals of the
learner and tie with his
teaching goals
5. When people are shown how learning a subject will enable
them to gratify (satisfy) a desire or realize a need, they are being
motivated to learn
6. A great impetus (momentum or speed) is given to learning
when the learner can see that what he learns will be of
immediate value to him in making his own life more satisfying
7. A desire or a want therefore, is the most definite and dynamic
of motives, from the educational point of view
