Abstract:
According to Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, a motive is "something (a need or desire) that causes a
person to act." Motivate, in turn, means "to provide with a motive," and motivation is defined as "the act or
process of motivating." Thus, motivation is the act or process of providing a motive that causes a person to take
some action. In most cases motivation comes from some need that leads to behavior that results in some type of
reward when the need is fulfilled. This definition raises a couple of basic questions.