External rewards
detrimental and does not serve the purpose of the motivation. Rewards are seen
as effective in getting people to perform an activity, but once the rewards are
no longer available, people’s intrinsic motivation to engage in activities is
undermined. On the other side of the debate are researchers who claim that negative
effects of reward are limited and that rewards can be used to increase
motivation and performance. (Cameron, 2005).
How does this information reflect or deflect your example of
the student who had to go to summer school due to a failing grade? Will the
lesson learned hold?
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