Psychology #1
...g that you don’t want to happen will happen. For example, writing this paper for myself is extrinsic motivation. I don’t necessarily like writing this paper but I want to avoid a bad grade so I’m doing it for the external reward of a good grade. Activities that are more likely to inspire intrinsic motivation are those that are likely to become a permanent part of a person’s life because they see the positive aspects of that task and like the task for what it does for them (pp.375 of our textbook). A movie that illustrates extrinsic motivation would be Office Space. The main character, Peter, held a job at a computer company. He absolutely hated his job, the only reason he worked there was for the money which illustrates the extrinsic motivation, the money was the reward. He then realized that not even that was worth continuing to work there so he quit his job...