What is better? Treatment or punishment?

What is the difference in motivation of the two?

Are there any differences between different jobs or ages?
What are the pros and cons of the two?

Hypothesis:
The quality of the action influences the action and the reaction.

Communication plan:
We made a group app.

Literature study:
We looked up articles about this part of motivation:

Article 1:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/family-affair/200809/rewards-are-better-
punishment-here-s-why
In this article they say that reward is better than punishment because it motivated the
children in this article more if they were told they did something good, rather than
telling them they did it badly. The children were also more motivated by knowing they
would get something positive. This is probably because it is easier to carry on the
same way than to learn from your mistake but by older students, the opposite was
true. They prestated better with negative feedback. So in this article they say that
younger children learn better from positive feedback, but older children learn better
from negative feedback.

Article 2:
https://source.wustl.edu/2015/05/carrot-or-stick-punishments-may-guide-behavior-
more-effectively-than-rewards/
In this article they tell us that punishment may lead to better results than rewarding.
In their study they found out that punishing led to 2-3 times better results than
rewarding did. This experiment was tested on university students. They say it is
because if they got a reward for a certain choice, they would make that choice again.
If they got punished they did not. So they were focusing more after they got
punished.
 Workplan

14-02-2017 Make workplan

15-02-2017 Make workplan and make the research design

7-03-2017 make the questionnaires (and the research design)

8-03-2017 hand out the questionnaires

14-03-2017 write down the results of the questionnaires

15-03-2017 finish the research

21-03-2017 make poster

fig. 1

Research design
We want to prepare a survey for teachers and students .
We have to email some teachers to ask if they want to participate in our research.

Questionnaire for the teachers:

1) How do you motivate your students?
2) Do you prefer motivating or punishing your students in order to get things done?
3) What motivation do you think works best for students? (motivating/punishing)
4) Do you think you motivate your students in a right way?
5) Do you think students need to be motivated to present the best?
6) Do you have any trouble with motivating your student?

Questionnaire for students:

1) How do you get motivated by teachers/parents
2) What motivation do you think works best for you? (punishment/treatment)
3) Do you think motivation is important for you?
4) Do you get motivated easily?
5) How do you respond to punishment?
6) How do you respond to treatment

Conclusion:
Teachers: They prefer motivating their students. They think that students like to be
motivated rather than to be punished so most of them think they are motivating their
students in a correct way.

Students: Most of them prefer treatment to be motivated. they think motivation is

important.

Results:

The conclusion in % Students Teachers

Treatment 75% 100%

Punishment 25% 0%
fig 2. In this table you see the % of students and teachers who prefer to be motivated by treatment
and who prefer to be motivated by punishment.