2nd Reflection

Dyah Ayu Setyani/ 2010110037

Hi all,

This is my reflection for our second meeting in Motivation and Management of Students for Effective Learning (MMSEL). In this meeting we discussed about Humanistic theories especially Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, The Need for Self-Determination, and The Need to Preserve Self-Worth. Let’s talk about it a little bit.

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs shows the requirements of someone. He said that people can achieve their growth needs if they already fill their deficiency needs. In this part, the meaning of growth needs is self-actualization where according to my understanding, its represent that someone can reach their goal. And the meaning of deficiency needs include four things; they are survival, safety, belonging, and self-esteem. In this part, Maslow said the first important thing in human life is survival. If someone can survive so they will care about their safety. After they feel save and then they will try to find the sense of belonging from their environment. If they have love and care for their communities and they get recognition and approval as the effort to make a good self esteem. So they can do self-actualization like they want. But in my opinion, this hierarchy is not rigid because I think that someone also cans survival when their environment loves him/ her. The example is me. I can survive because my parent loves me, so they will help me to fill my requirement in survival. They give me foods, money and etc. Could you give your comment about this?

The second material is the need for self-determination that includes three psychological needs; they are competence, autonomy, and relatedness. Here, someone who has more competence will be more motivated when their environment could give them chance to work by their self to make them being more independent. After that they want their environment could invite them to the communities and give their contribution there.

Third material is the need to preserve self-worth. In this part shown that someone become more motivated when they do something good and make their self-esteem strongly. The example when I write my opinion for Kompas and my opinion can print in the magazine, so I will say that I have good skill in writing to make my self-esteem being stronger.

Ok, it is all material that I get from the 2^nd meeting in MMSEL. And in this meeting I am very happy because we can make a role play to guess what the motivation that we show there is. Actually I confused when I have to guess the performing because some of them is same. So I just have two guessing that is right. Maybe my analysis for the performance was not good, but I like because this meeting make me felt not bored. Even I have to “dag dig dug” when I show my group performance.

This is all of my experience today in the 2^nd meeting in MMSEL. I hope in the next meeting we have more interesting class. And see you after two weeks.

Thank you.