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extrinsic

adjective accessory, added, additional, alien, apart, applied from without, collateral, contingent, derived from without, exterior, external, extra, extraneous, extrinsical, foreign, incidental, irrelevant, nonessential, peripheral, secondary, separate, strange, subordinate, subsidiary, supplemental, unessential
Associated concepts: extrinsic agreements, extrinsic ambiiuity, extrinsic circumstances, extrinsic evidence, extrinsic facts, extrinsic fraud, extrinsic mistake

EVIDENCE, EXTRINSIC. External evidence, or that which is not contained in the body of an agreement, contract, and the like.
2. It is a general rule that extrinsic evidence cannot be admitted to contradict, explain, vary or change the terms of a contract or of a will, except in a latent ambiguity, or to rebut a resulting trust. 14 John. 1; 1 Day, R. 8; 6 Conn. 270.

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In the first type of instrumentality, the future task extrinsically motivates and externally regulates the present activities.

Wanting to have vs. wanting to be: The effect of perceived instrumentality on goal orientation

But what is extrinsically bad cannot affect our actual experience and therefore should not be an object of our rational concern.

Temporal asymmetry, life, and death

Means of 3.98 and 4.14 on Items 6 and 7, respectively, indicate that Malaysian managers reward both intrinsically and extrinsically. However, Jain's (1990) study found that the workers expected extrinsic or cash awards for their quality circle efforts.

An examination of the transferability of traditional performance appraisal principles across cultural boundaries

The learners are motivated extrinsically when they have definite aims to achieve a target through acquiring a target language, and without these external rewards they consider it useless to acquire proficiency in that target language.

Second Language Motivational Orientations of Undergraduate Students at a Pakistani Public Sector University

Older adults were found to be more extrinsically religious and competing activities than young adults.

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For example, students who complete their homework because they comprehend its value for their careers are extrinsically motivated but have a greater sense of autonomy than students who complete their homework because their parents require them to complete it (Ryan & Deci, 2000).

Relationships between motivations for community service participation and desire to continue service following college

Griffin argues that incompossibility is necessary and extrinsically grounded in the essential attributes of God since God cannot actualize incompossible substances.

Griffin, Michael. Leibniz, God, and Necessity

Rarely has anybody tried to apply a concept deeply rooted in moral philosophy, such as practical wisdom, not extrinsically, in the discourse about economics, but intrinsically, in the development of economic models of choice themselves.

Approximating Prudence: Aristotelian Practical Wisdom and Economic Models of Choice

For example, one approach suggests that an individual's behavior can be either intrinsically motivated, extrinsically motivated, or amotivated.

Differences in students' motivation to attend college: large versus small high schools

Extrinsically motivated learning is focused upon satisfying others, or grades.

Motivational beliefs and learning strategies as predictors of academic performance in college physics

The mean scores show that the athletes are more intrinsically motivated than extrinsically and more extrinsically motivated than amotivated.

Commitment, enjoyment and motivation in young soccer competitive players

Students were extrinsically motivated to study mathematics, but the relationship between extrinsic motivation and achievement was weak.