Senioritis Research Paper

Danielle Wilk
Mr. Karavage
Psychology
Pd. 2
November 12, 2014
Senioritis/ Junioritis Project Senioritis is a stage in which most seniors go through but, other classes go through something like it as well. The definition of senioritis is as follows:
“Noun. A crippling disease that strikes high school seniors. Symptoms include: laziness, an over-excessive wearing of track pants, old athletic shirts, sweatpants, athletic shorts, and sweatshirts. Also features a lack of studying, repeated absences, and a generally dismissive attitude. The only known cure is a phenomenon known as Graduation.” (4)
This definition shows that there is no possible way to get rid of senioritis but I disagree. I believe that the student needs both intrinsic and extrinsic

The definition that I came up with is as follows: a disease that freshman get normally after the first month of school when they were whatever is on the top of the drawer in there dresser, they start studying less and not caring about anything. The only thing that stopped my freshitis was the last day of school. Same thing happened for me as a sophomore but it started a little latter. Which we call sophitis and then there is junioritis too. This year I started having signs of junioritis when the seniors started having the signs for senioritis. My sign were different though from last year to this year. First of all I started to notice that I did not care about marching band as much as I normally did. Next thing I noticed was I was starting to not care about my school work as much as I did at the beginning of the year. My last sign was that I started to care less about my chores and my privileges. I don’t know many student in this school but back at home a lot of my friends had senioritis last year and the only thing that got them motivated was the extrinsic motivations there teachers gave

My biggest extrinsic motivation was being able to sit and watch movies in the guidance office all week except for Monday if I had all A’s and B’s. Another one was they would buy me lunches when they would order out. The last one was I was aloud to do whatever I wanted during finales if I had all A’s for the year. So of course I would get good grades just to get these rewards but I also got excited and happy (intrinsic motivation) when I would get a hundred on a test also I would not go to a party if I got below a B so that was my way of giving myself some intrinsic motivation. When I came here though it all changed and it became exceptionally hard for especially having to actually go to classes every day. So of course I had to give myself some intrinsic motivation by making goals for myself and I just kept on adding new ones. I also had extrinsic goals too I made goals like if I would get a good grade on a test then I would have one of my personal snacks and the same for other things too. Also if I got good grades I rewarded myself by going to stage crew and alternative sports. Another of my favorite motivations was calling Jazz. If I would do something good like get a hundred on some big test or something like that that was really important and vital for me I would reward myself by calling and talking to my best