AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Motivation is defined as the processes that account for an individual’s intensity, direction, and persistence of effort toward attaining a goal.

Detailed explanation-2: -Intensity: how hard a person tries. 2. Direction: toward beneficial goal. 3. Persistence: how long a person tries.

Detailed explanation-3: -Daniel Goleman, who developed the concept of emotional intelligence in the mid ‘90s, identified four elements that make up motivation: our personal drive to improve and achieve, commitment to our goals, initiative, or readiness to act on opportunities, as well as optimism, and resilience.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the motivational process model, motivation is defined as a series of dynamic processes including generation, maintenance, and regulation of motivation of which primary functions are approach toward reward, learning through RPE, decision-making based on value, and cognitive control for goal pursuit.

Detailed explanation-5: -This definition can be expanded to those three elements listed above: intensity, persistence, and direction. Intensity is the level of effort an employee has, direction is where the employee is channeling their efforts, and persistence is how long an employee can maintain effort.