Extrinsic motivation and internalization

4 important questions on Extrinsic motivation and internalization

How to motivate others for uninteresting tasks?

  1. Explanatory rationales
  2. interest enhancing strategies (making it a game)

Extrinsic motivation predicts

  1. compliance (naleving)
  2. decrease in intrinsic motivation
  3. interferes with proces and Quality of learning
  4. creates reward dependency

Effect of expected and tangible rewards on intrinsic motivation

Expected rewards lowers intrinsic motivation (unexpected rewards do not)
tangible, material rewards lower intrinsic motivation (verbal & symbolic do not)
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Four types of extrinsic motivation

  1. External regulation (to get or avoid consequences)
  2. Introjected regulation (because i should)
  3. Identified regulation (because it is important)
  4. Integrated regulation (because it reflects my values)

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