Motivation is a term used in psychology to describe the internal causes of human behavior, which is interpreted as a psychological tendency or motivation to stimulate and maintain individuals to carry out activities and make them move towards a certain goal. Motivation does not explain what the activity itself is, nor does it determine how the activity is carried out, but explains why the activity is carried out. Need and motivation are two basic conditions of motivation. Demand is an internal condition and incentive is an external condition. There are two different incentives: when the individual is satisfied with the incentive, this incentive is called positive incentive; Whenever an individual is satisfied by escaping or avoiding an inducement, this inducement is called a negative inducement. For example, "gold medal" and "roaring lion behind you" are both incentives to motivate a person to run forward quickly, but the former is positive and the latter is negative. ?

(B) the definition of learning motivation:?

Learning motivation is a kind of social motivation, which is the embodiment of motivation in learning activities. It refers to the internal motivation to promote individual learning activities under the stimulation of incentives on the basis of certain learning needs. ?

(C) the classification of college students' learning motivation:?

According to different standards, learning motivation can be divided into different categories. Common classifications are as follows:

1) Internal learning motivation and external learning motivation?

Internal learning motivation means that the goal of individual learning points to the learning activity itself, and he can learn voluntarily without other external factors, which is what we often call "learning for happiness". For example, a classmate insists on going to the library to read various extracurricular books and masterpieces every day to broaden his horizons, reserve himself and learn more knowledge. Therefore, it is of great significance to cultivate and stimulate students' internal learning motivation to improve learning efficiency.

External learning motivation refers to the motivation that the learning goal points out of learning activities and needs incentives outside the learning situation to maintain. For example, a considerable number of college students' learning motivation in middle school is to "enter the university". After entering the university, because this goal has been achieved, its driving force as a driving force no longer exists, the new goal has not yet been formed, and the meaning of learning is not clear, which leads to the boredom of learning and the learning obstacle of "losing motivation". In addition, some studies show that internal motivation is positively related to academic performance, while external motivation is negatively related to academic performance.