Motivation is studied as the inner state that arouses an organism, sustains its activity and directs it towards a goal. The motivational cycle begins with a felt need or drive, passes through tension and restlessness, and closes when the goal reduces that tension.

Because the starting point of this cycle lies within the organism, the term covers the whole family of needs, drives, urges and emotional states that push a learner to act. A teacher who wants a child to work harder therefore works on these inner states through interest, praise, curiosity and meaningful tasks rather than on outward behaviour alone.

Wanting something, resolving firmly to obtain it and finally performing the act are separate expressions or stages that follow from this inner arousal. Each is a visible outcome rather than the force behind it, so none of them can be treated as what motivation essentially consists of.

Internal conditions option is correct.