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Motivation of Individuals
Motivation of Individuals
1. Bernard H.W.:
“Motivation is to find those approaches that will make the child eager
for the kind of learning the school endorses.” It refers to all those
phenomena which are involved in the stimulation of action towards
particular objectives where previously there was little or no movement
towards those goals.
2. Johnson:
“Motivation is the influence of general pattern of activities indicating
directing the behaviour of the organism.”
3. Mc Goach:
“Motive is that condition of the organism which points it towards the
practice of a given task and defines the satisfactory completion of the
task.”
4. Woodworth:
“A motive is a state of the knowledge which disposes him for certain
behaviour and for seeking certain goals.”
5. Shaffer and Others:
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