Editing Extrinsic Motivation (section)

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According to Ryan and Deci<ref name="Ryan">Richard M. Ryan, Edward L. Deci (2000). Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations: Classic Definitions and New Directions. In Contemporary Educational Psychology (25) 1 (pp.54-67). doi.org/10.1006/ceps.1999.1020 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0361476X99910202</ref>, “<i>Extrinsic motivation is a construct that pertains whenever an activity is done in order to attain some separable outcome</i>”. In other words, extrinsic motivation is when the person is motivated to act based on a certain outcome that does not directly relate to the activity itself. This is important to schools because every year students become less interested and less motivated in the subjects of learning, which teachers must find ways to prevent this happening<ref name="Martinez">Martinez M. E. (2010). Learning and cognition : the design of the mind. (pp. 153–188) Merrill. http://books.google.com/books?id=wqFWAAAAYAAJ</ref>. By providing some kind of rewards that does not relate to the subject, or establishing punishments for not completing an academic task, students become extrinsically motivated to finish the given task. These are forms of <i>external regulation</i> in which behaviors are done for the purpose of gaining a reward or avoiding a punishment, and not because of the interest in learning<ref name="Ryan" />.
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