Lisa+Motivation

(one of the three needs change to "education")


 * What seems to be the major motivating factor(s) for people that are affected by an eating disorder?

-The major motivating factor for people that are affected by an eating disorder is media and wanting to look thin. Unfortunately, in our modern society, most people equate thinness with beauty. Therefore, girls want to become thin by not eating. Also, in the media, there are beautiful, skinny people, that make girls want to lose even more weight. Teenage people generally are overly concerned about their looks so they are the primary victims of eating disorders. This becomes the major motivating factor.

1. Are we, as some might say, motivated by a desire to save our off-spring? -> I don't think we are motivated by a desire to save our off-spring because we have other motives in life such as companionship and friendship.

2. Must there always be some sort of intrinsic reward for doing good? -> Theoretically, there should not always be a reward for a good behavior, but in psychology, yes, there is almost always a reward for doing good. That is, because, the "reward" serves as a motive for somebody to perform the good behavior.

3. Mr. Otis once said, "That having integrity is doing the right thin when no one is watching." If this is so, and no one knows when we have done good, would you still do good? -> Yes, because sometimes, doing good is not just to be praised by others but is to gains self satisfaction and pleasure.

4. "Delayed reciprocal altruism", seems like a gamble - back to game theory, any way. Does this seem to make sense to you. That is that we act out of a desire to have what we have done being to us? -> I don't think that this statement is entirely true because sometimes, we act good purely to gain self satisfaction without thinking about what others might do for us when we have performed a good deed.

5. Are we every being truly "selfless" when committing an act of altruism? -> According to psychology, we are never really being "selfless" when committing an act of altruism because we all need motives to do what we do. Therefore, although the action was not intended for others to benefit you, you might have hoped to seek self satisfaction by doing such actions. Therefore, this cannot be said to be completely "selfless." **