Question

Social and Emotional Development

1. Define and discuss intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. How might parents and teachers help children become intrinsically motivated? What are some of the outcomes of extrinsic motivation?

Answer 1

Intrinsic Motivation:

Intrinsic motivation is defined as the behavior that is stimulated by internal rewards. It is the motivation to involve in a behavior that is caused from within the person because it provides satisfaction to the person.

Extrinsic Motivation:

Extrinsic motivation can be described as the behavior that stimulated by external rewards (money,grades or praise). Such motivation comes from outside the person and is called known as reward-driven behavior.

Ways to enhance Intrinsic Motivation in children:

• Empower the child with a sense of conscious choice.
• Enable the child to set higher goals
• Restructuring the reward system by involving more internal rewards rather than external.
• Guide and teach children self-direction and independence.
• Build a sense of confidence in the child
• Arouse child's interest

Outcome of Extrinsic Motivation:

• Due to external rewards that can individual gains, individual many times perform a task or a behavior not out of interest but due to the external reward. for example: an individual may not like his/her job, but have to go to work because they need the money to pay their expenditure.
• External rewards can cause dependence on the rewards and when the rewards is not presented, individual doesnot perform upto their potential and leads to decrease in the motivation.