Motivation - Douglas Brown 04/10

Motivation is the extent to which you make choices about goals to pursue and the effort you will devote to that pursuit..

One of the motivation camps is a traditional view of motivation that accounts for human behavior through a behavorioristic paradigm that stresses the importance of rewards and reinforcement. This is the Behavioristic definition, that define motivation as “THE ANTICIPATION OF REINFORCEMENT” – That’s when learners persue goals in order to receive externally administered rewards: praise gold stars, grades, certificates… It is extrinsic motivation.