Which type of motivation is associated with activities that are enjoyable or satisfying in themselves?

Intrinsic motivation

• It is also known as natural motivation as it is directly related to the natural instincts, urges, and impulses of an individual.
• The individual, who is intrinsically or naturally motivated, performs an act because he finds interest within the activity.
• The child is engaged in learning something because he gets pleasure in learning that thing. It gives him self-satisfaction.
• The activity carries its own reward and the individual takes a genuine interest in performing the activity, not due to some outside motives and goals.
• When a student tries to solve a mathematical problem and derives pleasure in the task of solving it or tries to read poetry and the reading itself gives him pleasure, then we can say that he is intrinsically motivated.

Extrinsic motivation

• It is also known as unnatural motivation as the source of pleasure does not lie within the task.
• The individual learns or does something, not for his own sake, but as a means of obtaining desired goals or getting some external reward.
• working for a better grade, learning a skill to earn a livelihood, receiving praise and blame, rewards and punishment, etc. all belongs to this category.

• A motivational trait can be defined as a stable and distinguishable feature of an individual that is distinct from cognitive ability yet influences the choice of goal-directed activities, the amount of effort expended on tasks, and the duration of time activities are pursued.

• The motivation was further defined as directing the arousal, direction, and persistence of behavior.
• These are very state-like properties in that they appear to arise in relation to some goal or situation.