What is Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation ? And How to teach Extrinsic Motivation

extrinsic and intrinsic motivation

Why Extrinsic Motivation Is Necessary

What is extrinsic Motivation?

Extrinsic motivation is the term for motivation that emanates from outside your own. The inspiring factors are outside, or external, rewards like cash or grades. These types of incentives offer satisfaction and delight that the particular task itself might not provide.

An extrinsically inspired individual works on a project even when they may have little affinity for it as a result of expected fulfillment they are going to get through some compensation. The reward is something as modest like a smiley face to something significant like recognition or fortune. For instance, an extrinsically motivated individual that dislikes numbers might strive on a mathematics formula because would like the prize for doing it. With regards to a student, the incentive has to be good grade for an assignment as well as in the class.

Is it a good drive?

External motivation does not necessarily mean, however, that the person won't obtain any satisfaction from doing or finishing an activity. It simply implies that the satisfaction they assume from several external rewards will still be a motivator regardless if the job to be carried out contains minimum interest. An extrinsically enthusiastic student, for instance, may detest a project, could find it uninteresting, or might have no interest within the subject, yet the potential for an excellent grade will probably be enough to hold a student motivated to ensure them to set on the effort to perform effectively on the activity.

External motivation is once you are stimulated by outside factors, rather than the inner drivers of innate motivation. Extrinsic determination drives you to accomplish things for real rewards or challenges, instead of the enjoyment of it.

What is extrinsic motivation and how does it work

Understanding Intrinsic Motivation

Even though you might not have heard of intrinsic motivation, you probably understand what motivation means. Anyway before we go further, let's do a quick recap.

Motivation is an energy source that helps push us towards our goals. Motivation meets certain needs which include:

• Need of pleasure

• Need to minimize pain

• The need to find food

• Or a need to accomplish a goal

Motivation is said to take on two different forms intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation.

Intrinsic motivation is a form of motivation which comes from fulfilling a task or a pleasure which you take great enjoyment in. Students are a fine example of this. Studying to achieve your own goals and to master a subject would be considered an intrinsic motivation.

Extrinsic motivation comes from achieving goals for results that come from outside of yourself. Such as studying to get good grades, or being paid to do a certain job or task. Winning a competition would be extrinsic motivation, you want to beat everyone else.

As inside motivation comes from self-reward this is also associated with positive thinking. You need to have the right mindset so you can achieve the results you are looking for.

Allowing yourself to seek a reward for your actions is your motivator. This is very true with learning a new task. Your inside motivation comes from the reward of success, such as striving to learn to play a musical instrument.

Since 1970 there have been many studies performed on intrinsic motivation. It has been shown that if you receive your reward as soon as you reach your goal, you view your results in a better light. Having to wait longer to get your reward lessens the effect of the motivation.

Challenges can also be seen as an intrinsic motivation, providing of course the challenge is something you enjoy doing. Putting together a difficult jigsaw puzzle will reward your intrinsic motivation. For those that enjoy math or crosswords, solving the problems will bring you immense joy.

By now you can see that inside motivation can bring you immense pleasure. If you decide to motivate yourself by attempting something really difficult, be sure to give yourself enough time to complete the challenge. Putting a time limit on something can take away from the joy of getting the job done. It then turns into something mandatory.

You can apply motivation to several areas of your life. As a motivator to get a job completed, as a challenge to solve something others see as difficult. As well you can use motivation to get a longer term goal completed. This would include things like losing weight or learning something new, or training to run a marathon.

Whether your goal is an extrinsic or intrinsic motivation you should always put your best effort into it to get the task completed. Putting your best foot forward and applying yourself will help you achieve the goals and dreams you have always desired for yourself and your family.

What is intrinsic motivation and what does it mean 

How to Teach Extrinsic Motivation

One:

External regulation, is the least self-determined form of extrinsic motivation. This is an example of a behavior that is performed to obtain an external reward or to avoid any type of punishment. This can be an athlete that will just participate in a run or a game just to make sure they come home with a trophy or money award (Cox 2007). An example of an athlete with introjected regulation, would go to practice just to please his coach, not to becoming a better player. Identified regulation is when an athlete realizes that in order to get better at a certain skill one must practice or take part in something that is not necessarily interesting to them. This is something that is very important in a sport such as track and field.

Two:

In the off season it is very important to make sure you lift weights to increase power and strength for the season, even though it is not the most exciting thing in the world. Integrated regulation is the closest level to intrinsic motivation, this is a behavior that was previously considered to be externally controlled has become something that can now be internally controlled. This can be an example of an athlete and a coach seeing eye to eye, and the athlete no longer feels controlled by the coach. (Cox 2007)

Three:

It is easy to see why many professional athletes call into the category of participating in a sport out of extrinsic factors. Once playing a sport for fun is replaced by a schedule that now requires you to be there because of a form of pay, it can cause a lack of freedom, and therefore a lack of you consciously wanting to be there. Fortunately for me, along with many other athletes there are ways to help increase intrinsic motivation once extrinsic motivation starts to take over. Intrinsic motivation can be ruined by competition and rewards.