Abstract

From perspective of cognitive psychology, the central question is how to enhance and maintain student's intrinsic motivation for learning and achievement. Bruner (1962) has been suggested the most important ways to help students think and learn is to free them from the control of rewards and punishments. By learning what to do to get rewards and by doing just what the teacher wants, students can become overachievers, but will fail to develop the capacity to transform their learning into flexible, useful cognitive structures. They may memorize well, but they will not develop their capacity to think creativity. For discovering something rather than learning, they will be a tendency to work with the autonomy of self-reward, and be rewarded by discovery itself.

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