B2 Listening - A talk about motivation

Match the following words and definitions

• The act of giving someone a job which is higher status than their current job

• an incentive

• Something that encourages a person to do something

• a promotion

• To make someone want to do something

• to motivate

• Having many related parts; difficult to understand or solve

• complex

• Someone who studies how people behave in social situations

• a social psychologist

We try to motivate workers in the same way that we try to motivate our children.

• True

• False

In the Glucksberg experiment, the people who were offered a reward finished faster than people who were not offered one.

• True

• False

The people who were offered smaller rewards in Ariely's experiment performed better than those offered bigger rewards.

• True

• False

In Ariely's experiment, people were more creative when they were concentrating on achieving a goal.

• True

• False

In the future, jobs will require workers to be more creative.

• True

• False

People always work better when they start the day later and work into the night.

• True

• False

Match the sentence halves

• Ariely's experiment shows that people are less creative when

• the experiment is repeated.

• Glucksberg's experiment shows that people solve a problem faster when

• they are doing the jobs of the future.

• An incentive works for people when

• they are doing a simple task.

• Incentives will no longer work for motivating people at work when

• they are offered a bigger reward.

• The same results as Glucksberg's experiment have been found when

• they are not given an incentive.