Motivation Psychology Practical /experiment - BA first year psychology Practicals Lucknow University

Waseem Shaikh October 15, 2022
Motivation Psychology Practical /experiment - BA first year psychology Practicals Lucknow University


Department of Psychology
University of Lucknow


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MOTIVATION

Introduction- (one paragraph about the phenomenon)

Name of the experiment- Motivation

Purpose- To study the effect of feedback on the performance of a simple motor task.

The points to ponder, given at last, should be discussed with the students before starting the experiment.

Hypotheses-

H 1: Performance of the praised group would be better than the performance of the blamed group H2: Performance of the praised group would be better than the control group.

H2: Performance of the blamed group would be better than the performance of the control group. 

Variables:

Independent Variable- three conditions of feedback ( positive feedback, negative feedback and no feedback)

Dependent Variable- Performance on a simple motor task.


Material used: Stopwatch, Three Cancellation sheets, pen and paper.                                                                 

Subjects’ details: 

Three subjects of same age, gender and Educational Qualification 

Method

Preliminary setup: Three subjects were selected (matched on age, gender and qualification). Two of them are experimental subjects (one is praised other is blamed during task) and the other one is control subject. Stopwatch is checked. Letters to be cancelled should be decided before starting the experiment (consonants, vowels, j, k or any other selected alphabets as per the choice of the experimenter. 

Procedure: Individual administration first on experimental subjects and then on control subject. Following instructions were given to all the three subjects-

 

“This is a sheet comprising of both consonants and vowels. Your task is to cancel...... I will give you a signal of ‘ready’ thereafter i will give you a signal of ‘start’. As soon as you hear ‘start’, start cancelling the letters you have been told. When i say ‘stop’, stop cancelling and put a slash (/).’’

After the first trial of the experimental subject 1 (positive feedback), the experimenter took the cancellation sheet to evaluate and gave positive feedback viz. Good, fair etc. In this way five trials of 1 minute each were taken and positive feedback was given after every trial. Same procedure was followed for the experimental subject 2 and the control subject except that the experimental subject 2 was given negative feedback after each trial and the control subject was not given any feedback. 

Two errors were calculated in the experiment: 

  • Error of Omission (EO): the number of alphabets left out.
  • Error of Commission (EC): the number of incorrect alphabets cancelled by subject.

The correct cancellations of different groups (leaving the two types of errors) in five trials were counted .Responses of ten subjects are collected to obtain the pooled data. Significance of mean difference is checked by using t test. 


Precautions: 

The feedback was given in a consistent manner over five trials for experimental subject 1 and experimental subject 2.

It was made sure that the subject marked the end of each trial with a slash.

Results 

Qualitative data: An introspective report is taken which serves as qualitative data. 

Quantitative data: The quantitative results are presented in the following tables

Table 1: Individual Observation tables for showing the performance of ES1, ES2 and CS

Table 2: Pooled data showing the performance of the three groups

t-testing between praise(ES1) and blame(ES2), praise(ES1) and control, and blame(ES2) and control groups


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