EDUCATION (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The process of motivating goal-directed behavior through interrogative self-talk. Self-posed questions about a future behavior may inspire thoughts about autonomous or intrinsically motivated reasons to pursue a goal, leading a person to form corresponding intentions and ultimately to perform the behavior.

Detailed explanation-2: -One general aspect of motivated behaviors is that they lead to a goal and obtaining the goal is rewarding. Thus, motivation, defined as the energizing of behavior in pursuit of a goal, is a fundamental property of all deliberative behaviors.

Detailed explanation-3: -Consider the example of going to the local market to buy flowers. This goal-directed action is performed because of the desire to get flowers and the belief that going to the market will achieve this outcome.

Detailed explanation-4: -Those four components are: biology, environment, cognition, and emotion. Each contributes to the production of behavior in its own unique way and, each can interact with one or more of the others to produce motivated behavior.