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AP Psychology 3.3 Motivation and Emotion. When might using extrinsic rewards for motivation be harmful?

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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by Freudian slips

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attracting partners with oedipal complexes latency stages or imbalances

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of the ideo or super-ego yeah it's a Freudian slip okay here's question when [Question appears]

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might using extrinsic rewards for motivation be harmful?

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let's get into it what is the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic

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motivation well let's start with an example that deals with you the viewer

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are you watching this video because you're trying to achieve a well-balanced [Boy reading books]

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knowledge base or are you doing it to study psychology for a class or test

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well if you're the first one you're probably not using your time correctly

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and you're watching the video for intrinsic or internal motivations if [Boy appears with x-ray image over chest]

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you're the second category and let's face it you probably are you're doing it

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for extrinsic or external motivations yeah I guess at a and move on

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extrinsic motivations or anything driven by external rewards to self refers to

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financial incentives ie money but could also mean achievement ie grades a claim [Cash falling]

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ie fame or adoration and praise ie well that one doesn't really need a synonym [People applauding]

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so when would these wonderful things be harmful let's look at our options well

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start with the two extreme answers a and E not the net worth in both tests in

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psychology we normally find that extreme answers are problematic and these two [Man performing parkour]

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are no exception the first would have us believe that rewards never work that

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seems pretty naive especially since many of us have been working for extrinsic [Man riding a lawnmower]

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motivation since our parents started tricking us into doing chores for small

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allowances then we have answered e which says the opposite that offering rewards

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always work never with any consequences and that seems pretty cynical even the

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most trumpian people among us will probably admit that there are times when [Donald Trump outside Trump Tower]

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offering extrinsic rewards can have negative consequences well that leaves

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our middle options B C and D and let's look at B and C together because well

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they're very similar beast has a person motivated by respect from his peers

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doesn't need extrinsic motivation C says a person motivated by money doesn't need

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extrinsic now as you may remember both money and [Donald Trump on a beach with money raining]

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respect from peers are themselves extrinsic motivations albeit to viewed

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very differently from society so each of these answers are basically saying that

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those motivated by extrinsic motivations don't need extrinsic motivations that's [Woman making dog and monkey skip]

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pretty confusing and it doesn't really make any sense even if we ignore the

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problems in logic neither answer says why these motivations are harmful so

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that brings us to D which says that if you're driven by personal motivation

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external rewards might change your motives the first let's note that this

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is the only one of the five answers which gives a clear reason for why [Answers appear on sheet]

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extrinsic rewards are harmful second and more importantly let's note that this

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one is true the ability of extrinsic rewards to interfere with personal [Man playing bass]

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motivation is called the over justification effect simply put it means

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that if someone enjoys something for purely personal reasons then is offered [People at a musical production]

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a reward like money for that task their motivation will start to become reward

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based rather than personal I should know I used to educate for the sheer thrill [Man teaching]

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of it before shmoop came in with their promises of fame and fortune don't make

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the same mistake I did don't let the riches and allure of academia keep you

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from the self-satisfaction of learning

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