Question 1

The article and the lecture have close similarity to each other in that they augment the issue of relativism in the discussed subjects. The article itself discusses how motivation differs among different people all depending on several aspects which vary in people. There are many variables that inspire a student’s behavior and all of which have different results when applied at different stages of development (Mayo & Manning,1961). The lecture brings out the issue of relativity more succinctly and clearly when it talks of relative interpretation of a common reality. In real life when people are confronted with same phenomena, it will be easily noticeable they will interpret it differently based on their diverse mental conceptualizations of the issue. This is why it talk about the diversity of epistemological approaches to issues with regards to how the human mind work and seemingly operate under different situations. Whether by faith or observation or the eventual application of logic, there can never be a universalistic method of programming the human mind.

Question 2

The connections highlighted above in the two readings primarily show that when observing and studying human behavior and their response to phenomena, then it will difficult to have one single approach to that. Such an undertaking can only have different variable which should be able to take care of the diversity of human nature. For instance, when we want to measure motivational levels of individuals, then it is prudent that we have different scientific enquiries using the discussed variables in the article. Likewise, human behavior originates from the different motivations that are possessed by human beings (Mayo & Manning,1961). The same approach applies to even job attitudes since what motivates one employee is often radically different from what motivates another.