Have you ever wanted to learn a foreign language or play an instrument? What pushed you to carry out this new task? While we are all inspired to learn different things throughout our lives, not all students are driven to learn for the same reason. Extensive research has been conducted in the field of educational psychology for many decades. Through this research, psychologists have identified two basic classifications of motivation: intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation. From a young age, we as humans are all curious and interested in exploring and learning new things, without the need for incentives provided by external sources to do so. This is the self-motivating force known as intrinsic motivation. Therefore, the rewards and benefits associated with a student's passing a particular course are not as rewarding compared to his or her personal interest and desire to learn new, more challenging material. For example, Tim is a student who has always enjoyed writing. Next semester, Tim wants to take the advanced English composition course offered by his high school. He knows the course will help him get a scholarship from the school he chose to attend, but on top of that Tim really wants to become a writer. Tim believes that the advanced English course was very helpful to him in his quest to become a future journalist. He understands that the course will be difficult and, at times, very mentally demanding, but in return he will learn many new writing techniques to make his writing more... (citation omitted).