Assignment task: Answer these questions
Part I) Imagine that you are a fitness coach who wants to enhance the motivation of your clients to exercise. Based on information from the textbook on intrinsic and extrinsic motivation:
Q1. Describe how you would go about using external rewards to enhance motivation for your clients. Provide examples of possible rewards and justify your decisions based on the textbook.
Q2. Describe what type of motivation you would like your clients to have, why, and how you might know they possessed such motivation.
Part II) Imagine that you have been contracted to create an advocacy video in the form of an advertisement that will play on TV and YouTube for an environmental group who is seeking to warn people about the very real threat of climate change and thus to promote more environmentally friendly behaviours. The company wants to use fear-arousing messages to change people's behaviours.
Part III) You and a friend have decided you want to start a campaign to raise money on campus for a charity that is near and dear to your heart. Choose 2 of the following social influence principles and techniques: 1) the door-in-the-face technique, 2) reciprocity norm, 3) foot-in-the-door technique, 4) lowballing, 5) normative social influence, 6) informational social influence, 7) scarcity.
Q1. Describe how you would utilize these two techniques or principals to increase the amount of money people donate.
Q2. Justify your use of both by explaining how they operate in your example (i.e., why they should increase donations)
Part IV) You work for a major technology company in Silicon Valley. You have recently been tasked with heading up a group who will advise the product development team on ways to improve the users' experience within the company's new mobile app. However, as the team's leader, you have begun to be concerned that your group is beginning to show signs of groupthink.
Q1. Describe two symptoms of groupthink that would lead you to become concerned and how each might manifest in your group discussions.
Q2. Describe two strategies you would implement to prevent groupthink, explaining how each would help prevent groupthink and provide an example of how you would implement each.