Group Discussion

In groups, we had to answer some questions in class about "Motivation in the classroom".
This is the question my group had to answer: "What do the three cognitive definitions of motivation have in common?"

Answer:
The book brings us three theories about the motivation, lets see what they say:

Drive theory - the final goal of this definition is to build student's own self-esteem, using six different drives (exploration, manipulation, activity, stimulation, knowledge and ego enhancement).

Hierarchy of needs theory - "Being all that you can be". It is best viewed by a pyramid of needs that contains physical needs as its base, then emotional needs and on the top there are esteem and self-actualization.

Self-control theory - It says that the most important is to make people "decide for themselves" what to think, feel or do. Motivation is higher when one can make one's own choices.

As we can see, all of them are student centered theories and the main goal is to build student's self-esteem and self-confidence in order to achieve the Autonomy.