PSY BEH 101D Lecture Notes - Lecture 81: Motivation, Psy, Mindset
17 Dec 2019
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Extrinsic and intrinsic motivation: extrinsic motivation: doing something to obtain something else (the activity is a means to an end), often influenced by external incentives such as rewards and punishments. Intrinsic motivation tends to decline from middle to high school, biggest drop between sixth and seventh grades: conclusion about intrinsic and extrinsic motivation: teachers should encourage students to become intrinsically motivated. Similarly, teachers should create learning environments that promote cognitive engagement and self-responsibility for learning. Intrinsic and extrinsic can operate simultaneously: mastery motivation: task oriented they concentrate on learning strategies and implementing the process of achievement rather than focusing on their ability or the outcome. I"m not very good at this even though they might earlier have demonstrated their ability through many successes: once they view their behavior as failure, they often feel anxious, and they performance worsens even further, appears bored, uninterested.
