An individual who is intrinsically motivated is an individual that receives their primary motivation for engaging and or seeking to improve their skills in a given task or activity, from the pleasure or joy that they receive from engaging in a particular activity. A person who is intrinsically motivated will have the drive to complete an activity simply because he or she enjoys the activity and considers it valuable (Spector, 2011). This means that this type of person completes the task or goal simply because they want to, they do not have to have some reward. While an individual who is extrinsically motivated is motivated by some form of outside stimulus, pressure, benefit, or reward. This type of person requires some reward to complete the task/job/goal.
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