Question

Which of the following students appears to be intrinsically motivated?

A) Marty likes to watch her cousin go parasailing, but is afraid to go up with him. After much persuasion, she agrees to try it once to please her cousin.

B)Alfonso studies for the spelling bee every night and wants to win the trophy to make his dad proud of him.

C) Shonda takes her mystery book to all of her classes and reads a few more pages whenever she gets a chance.

D) Len competes with his best friend to make the highest grade in algebra class.

Answer 1

C) Shonda takes her mystery book to all of her classes and reads a few more pages whenever she gets a chance because shonda appears to be intrinsically motivated because this behavior comes from within herself and interest for the activity at hand giving her internal satisfaction, as the definition of intrinsic motivation also states that a behavior which is driven by internal rewards and which seems to give natural satisfaction to an individual is termed as intrinsic motivation.

Thus, in case of Shonda she appears to read pages from her mystery book to gain internal satisfaction and pleasure.