Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation

Question 1

What is extrinsic motivation?

Answer 1

Motivation that originates from external factors that lead to a specific outcome
- Environmentally created reason
- Often separate from the actual activity it wanna promote
Work to get salary
- Incentives and consequences

Question 2

S : R to C

Answer 2

S - situational cue
: - sets the occasion for
R - response
to - causes
C - Consequence

Question 3

What is an incentive?

Answer 3

An environmental event that attracts or repel a person toward or away from initiating a particular course of action
- Before behavior
- Influence
- Based on learned through experience if to approach or avoid

Question 4

What is a consequence?

Answer 4

Something that reinforces or punishes behavior
- Happens after
- Inlfuence persistence of behavior

Question 5

Reinforces

Answer 5

Positive: more likely to repeat the behavior
- Money
- Praise
- Awards
Negative: aversive stimuli that can increase behavior once removed
- Crying
- Deadlines

Question 6

What determines effectiveness of reinforcers?

Answer 6

• What is offered/removed?
• When is it offered?
• Who is offering it?
• Intensity

Question 7

Punisher

Answer 7

Added stimulus that punishes a behavior results in decreased frequency of the punished behavior
- Aversive punisher
- Respinse cost

Question 8

Does punishers work?

Answer 8

Short- term compliance with long-term side-effects
- Negative emotionality
- Impaired relationships
- Negative modeling

Question 9

Rewards and Extrinsic Motivation

Answer 9

• Creates positive emotions and faciliatets behavior
• Dopamine releases
• Works best when unexpected

Question 10

What is intrinsic motivation?

Answer 10

The inherent desire to engage one’s interests, to exercise and develop one’s capacities
- directly linked with psychological needs satisfaction
- Growtch-facilitating motivation

Question 11

What are the unintended side effects of using extrinsic motivation on inherently interesting activites?

Answer 11

• Decreases intrinsic motivation
• Interferes with learning and the capacity of autnomous self-regulation

Question 12

Cognitive Evaluation Theory

Answer 12

• All external events have both a controlling and a competence-informing aspect to them
• How extrinsic events affects motivations and psychological needs for competence an autonomy, feedback

Question 13

What is the experience of amotivation?

Answer 13

• Lack of competence
• Lack of autonomy
• Lack of relatedness

Question 14

How can I promote motivation?

Answer 14

• Building interest in it
• Providing a rationale
  Why are we doing this
• Decrease controlling function “ do this, get that”, provide more information

Question 15

According to SDT, what are the fundamental differences between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation?

Answer 15

Extrinsic
- Punisher and rewards servers as motivation
Intrinsic
- Going for what you find fun, engages all 2 psychological needs and the activity has its own value

Question 16

What are the self-determination continuum for regulating extrinsic motivation?

Answer 16

• External Regulation
  Use of incentives or consequences to elicit behavior
• Introjected Regulation
  Avoiding negative emotions or boosting positive ones
  Taking the other person’s belief into consideration
• Identified Regulation
  Starting to internalize the value behind the behavior
• Integrated Regulation
  Value congruence