INTRINSIC AND EXTRINSIC MOTIVATION TO PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN

Abstract

The motivation is one of the most important element in the self-adjustment of the individual. Ones of the motivation forms ar innate but others, more complex and numerous are formed during the human life depeding on the external environment particularities and on the specificity of the necessity states. In the learning process, the motivation is primarly extrinsic and than it becomes intrinsic. The author presents her results on two samples of primary school children, regarding the transformation of extrinsic learning motivation into intrinsic learning motivation. The results show that using adequate methods we can contribute to a faster transformation of the extrinsic motivation into an intrinsic one, which is more significant for a real learning and understanding.