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INTRINSIC MOTIVATION.
Intrinsic motivation is the internal urge that people have to accomplish a task. It is driven by an interest or enjoyment in the task itself. Intrinsically motivated people strive to achieve a goal regardless of the situation. They carry out activities for inner satisfaction and not for separable consequences. Examples:- A wife may perform all her matrimonial duties not because of what she gets in return from the husband but because of the inner love she has for her husband.
- A learner might get all the mathematics questions correct because she or he enjoys working with numbers.
FACTORS THAT PROMOTE INTRINSIC MOTIVATION.
- Challenge – people are best motivated when they are working towards personally meaningful goals whose attainment requires activity at a continuously optimal level of difficulty.
- Curiosity – something in the physical environment attracts the learner’s attention or there is an optimal level of discrepancy between present knowledge and what these could be if the learner engages in some activity.
- Control– people have a basic tendency to want to control what happens to them.
- Fantasy – Learners use mental images of things and situations that are not actually present to stimulate their behaviour.
- Competition – Learners feel satisfied by comparing their performance favourably with that of others.
- Co-operation – Learners feel satisfied by helping others to achieve their goals.
- Recognition – Learners feel satisfied when others recognise and appreciate their accomplishments.
STRENGTHS OF INTRINSIC MOTIVATION
Ø Learners who are intrinsically motivated handle assignments or tasks more willingly. Ø They are eager to learn classroom materials as such are likely to achieve at high levels. Ø They process information in effective ways through taking part in the classroom activities thereby mastering what they learn.WEAKNESSES OF INTRINSIC MOTIVATION
Ø Learners who are highly intrinsically motivated become so absorbed in one thing that they tend to ignore other tasks.EXTRINSIC MOTIVATION
Extrinsic motivation is the type of motivation that comes from the outside environment of an individual. It refers to the behaviour that is influenced by external events such as grades, points or money. People who are extrinsically motivated work hard to achieve goals common. It include money, grades, the threat of punishment, praise, a crowd cheering on an individual or team and trophies. Learners who are extrinsically motivated are compelled to do something or act in a certain way because of factors that are external to them. Examples:- A student at CfE may choose to study Economics because of the prestige that surrounds the field of study and the expected high paying jobs.
- A learner will work extra hard in class where their teacher awards all students who perform very well i.e. taking positions number one, two and three in terms of performance.
STRENGTHS OF EXTRINSIC MOTIVATION.
When one is extrinsically motivated, they put in their all because they are more interested in the result (reward).WEAKNESSES OF EXTRINSIC MOTIVATION.
- Learners do not master what they learn because they are interested in what they earn at the end.
- Little or no learning is likely to take place in the absence of external motivators.
- The primary negative effect of using extrinsic motivation is that it tends to forestall self-regulation and scholars have warned that it runs a serious risk of diminishing intrinsic motivation.