The Advantages of Giving Individual Tokens for Good Behavior in School
- Can these incentive rewards lead to intrinsic motivation or are the tokens a form of bribery (extrinsic motivation) ?
- What are the pros and cons of giving tokens for behavior?
- Can giving token for “good behavior” have a positive or negative long-term effect upon individuals as they continue into adulthood? How do you reward yourself? How do your motivate yourself?
- Do you know which style you most often use: reinforcement or bribery?
- Can teachers change their strategies and behavior to help a student to be intrinsically motivated?
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There are two types of motivations that teachers use to motivate students, intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation is doing some activity for the pleasure of doing it and completing the activity successfully…
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