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Excessive rewards in learning reduce :

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HTET 2025 Level 1 PRT Question Paper (5-Jul-2026)
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Intrinsic motivation

Intrinsic motivation is the drive to engage in an activity for its own inherent satisfaction, rather than for an external reward.

Research on the "overjustification effect" shows that when excessive external rewards are given for an activity a person already enjoys, their intrinsic motivation to do that activity for its own sake tends to decline.

Attention, interest, and memory are not the primary targets of this effect — the well-documented consequence of over-rewarding is specifically the erosion of intrinsic motivation.

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