incentive

(noun)

Something that motivates, rouses, or encourages; an anticipated reward or aversive event from the environment.

Related Terms

  • intrinsic
  • extrinsic

Examples of incentive in the following topics:

  • Incentive Theory of Motivation and Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Motivation

    • According to incentive theory, behavior is primarily motivated by the incentive of extrinsic factors.
    • In general, motivators provide some sort of incentive for completing a task.
    • Social and emotional incentives like praise and attention are also extrinsic motivators since they are bestowed on the individual by another person.
    • In those cases, extrinsic motivators can backfire: instead of serving as an incentive for the desired behavior, they undermine a previously held intrinsic motivation.
    • Differentiate between intrinsic and extrinsic incentives as related to theories of motivation
  • The Psychology of Employee Satisfaction

    • Motivation involves providing someone with an incentive to do something; proper incentives should outweigh the cost of the actions required to achieve them.
    • Motivation can be intrinsic (consisting of internal factors within a person, such as the desire to succeed) or extrinsic (consisting of external factors, such as monetary incentives).
  • How Stress Impacts our Health

    • Stress is a necessity for life and is a primary biological incentive for all.
  • Latent Learning

    • Tolman theorized that the rats in the third group had indeed been learning a "cognitive map" of the maze over the first ten days; however, they'd had no incentive to run the maze without any errors.
  • Decision Making

    • It remains when the subjects are offered money as an incentive to be accurate, or when they are explicitly told not to base their judgment on the anchor.
  • Schedules of Reinforcement

    • Compound schedules are often seen in the workplace: for example, if you are paid at an hourly rate (fixed-interval) but also have an incentive to receive a small commission for certain sales (fixed-ratio), you are being reinforced by a compound schedule.
  • Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development

    • and the parents offer the child an incentive by giving him an allowance.
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