9.1 Motivation 1 (int & ext)

What is being defined below?

to engage in a behavior because of the inherent satisfaction of the activity

• motivation

• motivator

• intrinsic motivation

• external motivation

Which is statements are false?

• intrinsic motivation is always better than extrinsic motivation

• extrinsic motivation is always better than intrinsic motivation

• motivation always is associated with a goal (including 'doing something')

• You can still do something even if you are not highly motivated to do so

Nigel is a professional middleweight boxer and he is going to fight to become the champion. His opponent, the current champ however is going to be disqualified before the fight, because he is over the middleweight weight range. The sports authorities tell Nigel that he can either make his opponent forfeit the fight and he automatically becomes champion (without having to fight) or he can still fight even though his opponents is a little over the weight. Nigel decided not to fight an automatically become the champion. He is ...

• intrinsically motivated

• extrinsically motivated

Janey is very focused during lessons and achieves high grades on every assessment. It is getting an A* which drives her learning. Pauline also does very well on assessments, but she finds the things which drives her learning is she finds in interesting and useful to know new things.

Who is intrinsically motivated?

• Janey

• Janet

• Pauline

• Paula

Edward is always focused on his grades, but he wishes he was a bit more intrinsically motivated to learn at school. Which strategies might he use to be more intrinsically motivated at school?

• relate what he is learning to his personal interests

• set himself the goal of getting an A or A*

• try to score higher than his classmates

• ask the teacher if he can do the work in a way he enjoys more

• ask himself questions about the topic he is learning?

Layla is not very driven to learn guitar, but her parents said she has to do it for at least a year because they bought her a guitar. As she must go to her lessons, she decides she may as well try to motivate herself to learn to play guitar better. Which of these strategies she thinks of would be external motivators?

• she can try to learn a new song

• she aims to reach level 1 by within 3 months

• she can play to an audience

• she aim to master her major scales

• she can ask her parents to cook her favourite food if she learns a song they like

Hank does not want to keep playing an online game with his friends. He thinks the game has gotten boring and instead he wants to use his imagination and read a book However, he knows it he stops all his friends will complain as he hasn't helped them on their quest. Hank decides to keep playing. Which of the following is this an example of ...

• internal motivation

• external motivation

• motivation

• demotivation

• none of the these

What motivation involves doing something because you enjoy it?

Tony dislikes his job. However he keeps doing it because he is externally motivated by his ... (starts with S)

Andrew is very externally motivated. He is particularly motivated to _______ with others. (starts with a C and ends in E)