Thursday, 4 April 2013

Motivation


Internal  and external factors that stimulate desire and energy  in people to be continually interested and committed to a goal oriented behavior.
According to business dictionary (2013) Motivation results from the interaction of both conscious and unconscious factors such as the
(1) intensity of desire or need
(2) incentive or reward value of the goal,
(3) expectations of the individuals and of his or her peers.

These factors are the reasons one has, for behaving a certain way. An example is a student that spends extra time studying for a test  because he or she wants a better grade in the class.
Types of motivation
1.       Extrinsic Motivation: Occurs when learner does something to earn external reward.
2.      Intrinsic Motivation: Occurs when learner does something to experience a satisfying result.( Roza, 2013)
Motivation theories
·         The behavioral view of motivation
·       The social-cognitive view of motivation
·         The humanistic view of motivation
·         Motivating students with technology. ( Roza, 2013)

Reference


Roza, I. (2013, April). Motivation. Unpublished lecture notes, the Maldives national University, Maldives.

1 comment:

  1. How come penalizing a behavior change a child's performance? Or how come imposing strict rules on a misbehaved child improves his/her behavior?

    Effect is more on the negative side. Its sad to see low tolerance rate from educated people like teachers to take corrective measures strictly to a child's behavior. Just wonder whats the use of learning those fancy theories about behavior and all if teachers don't have the capacity to impose them on the child.

    Teachers RULE. So there's nothing the parent or the child can do. But when the misbehaved child gets expelled from the school he/she becomes a problem to the whole society.

    And if the child is out of control and chose a wrong way then the school and the teachers have to take the responsibility.

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