Psychology Motivation

1.) For the most part I believe the students at my school were intrinsically motivated. This was because my teacher placed a huge emphasis on effort, and students did not very often receive tangible rewards for good behavior or performance. They were however praised when they put a lot of effort into assignments.

2.) A student's intrinsic motivation can be decreased by tangible rewards and praise. This is because a student may start to perform certain behaviors to simply obtain the reward or the praise of the teacher. In this way rewards and praise can increase extrinsic motivation.

3.) Expectancies are what a student expects the outcome of a given activity will be. Values are the worth students assign to a given assignment or activity. Depending on the expectancy and value a student places on an assignment they may be more or less motivated to complete it. If the student has poor expectations for how the assigment will turn out and does not value the assignment they are less likely to be motivated to do the assignment.

4.) some student level motivation I saw in the classroom was the class management plan. Everytime a student broke a rule or misbehaved they had to "move a clip" that was assigned to them. Each movement of their clip indicated a time amount taken from their recess. On a class level Each table could earn table points based on good behavior. The table with the most points got extra time at recess.

5.) I agree most with the self-worth theory. This is because I feel students can perform better simply by believing they can perform well if they put in the effort. I think many times students are trained to believe they are low achievers and thus judge that they will perform poorly on assigments and then put less effort into them because they don't believe they will succeed anyway. I think the idea of self worth plays a huge role in how students perform academically.