Concepts of Motivation
There are two different types of motivation, which are extrinsic or intrinsic. These two areas assist in determining where the reward comes from. Biological and environmental motivations are two sources that describe where the desire to accomplish the goals comes from. The direction and exhibition of behavior toward motivation lies within a variety of theories. There is a relationship that ties behavior and motivation together lead to the effect of a person’s cognitive and mental state. Despite the environmental and biological sources, the relationship between behavior and motivation has theories of behavior supporting motivation.
Motivation
Motivation is the process that initiates and maintains oriented goals in relations to behaviors (Cherry, n.d.). This is what causes a person to act; example is person retrieving water because he or she is thirsty. There are biological, emotional, and cognitive perspectives that start a specific behavior. For instance, a student who has motivation in the acceptance of a clinical psychology program, he or she would study every night. Drive theory, humanistic theory, and instinct theory has been found by psychologists regarding motivation (Cherry, n.d.).
Components of Motivation Activation, intensity, and persistence are the three main components of motivation. The decision of initiating a behavior is known as activation (Cherry, n.d.). This would be as a person enrolls into a psychology class. Persistence is the effort put forward to a goal or obstacle (Cherry, n.d.). This occurs when a person would take more psychology classes to obtain a degree. The concentration that goes into pursuing a goal is known as intensity (Cherry, n.d.). For instance, one student may have it easy to get through a class in where another student would study on a regular basis to get through the class.
Extrinsic versus Intrinsic There are different types of motivation, which are intrinsic and extrinsic. Motivations that come from the outside of a person who have rewards are extrinsic (Cherry, n.d.). Some of these rewards are money, trophies, and social recognition. Those that come from within individuals are known as intrinsic motivation (Cherry, n.d.). For instance, a person completing a cross word puzzle and are happy because of solving the problem.
Motivation Sources The source of motivation has cues which are internal, such as psychological and biological responses or emotional elements (Crocker & Wolfe, 2001). Examples of these would be self-esteem that develops from his or her personal life. Environmental sources, also known as external, have environmental events and are in reference to as goals or incentives. Environmental motivations are incentives or goals that attract a person toward a result and psychological or biological motivations push a person into an action (Deckers, 2010).
Relationship between Behavior and Motivation When a person has motivation, he or she initiates a specific type of behavior to meet the needs of his or her goals (Deckers, 2010). The behavior comes from the desire of a person to meet the need that a person has motivation to fulfill. Motivation is an achievement by a behavior aligned in the accomplishment of the goal. For instance, if the persons need is thirst, this becomes the motivator. This becomes satisfied by a behavior that results in drinking. The desire is the beginning of the behavior that motivates the person in accomplishing the goal (Deckers, 2010).
Motivation Exhibited in Behavior It is apparent that a person who works hard at his or her job because he or she is motivated in earning money is an observable exhibition of motivation a person’s behavior. For instance, a female has motivation by an attractive male and becomes willing to act in a certain manner to draw that male’s attention. The duration or persistence a male puts into his job is an observable attribute in behavior because of the amount of time spent