Please Help me to write this in your own words. According to the textbook “Experience Psychology”, intrinsic
Please Help me to write this in your own words.
According to the textbook “Experience Psychology”, intrinsic
motivation is based on internal factors such as organismic needs as well as curiosity, challenge, and fun. Intrinsic motivation refers to engagement in an activity with no reason other than the enjoyment and satisfaction of engagement itself. By comparison, extrinsic motivation involves external incentives such as rewards and punishments. The goals of extrinsically motivated engagement might be the attainment of tangible rewards such as money, prizes, or other benefits; intangible rewards such as social approval, a sense of worthiness, or even a sense of conscientiousness; or the avoidance of tangible and intangible punishments such as time-out, scolding, rejection or sense of low self-worth.
The way an activity can be transformed from “play” to “work” merely by replacing internal rewards with external rewards. “Work” consists of whatever the body is obliged to do, and “play” consist of whatever the body is not obliged to do. When we enjoy of doing something, our rewards are funny and happiness. But if the rewards are wage or promotion, that will turn it into work. Rewards (extrinsic motivation) backfire, rather than bolstering motivation, they actually undermine it. People tend to lose interested more quickly, give up more easily, and ultimately perform worse when rewards are involved. While rewards might be effective in bringing about temporary compliance, over the long haul, they almost always backfire.
As you have seen, extrinsic motivation and intrinsic motivation are both important ways of driving behavior. In order to comprehend how these can be best utilized, it is important to understand some of the key differences between the two types of motivation including the overall impact that each can have on behavior.