Question

Stacy, ricardo, hanh, and ponto are all students in mr. falcon's english literature class. although the four students are the same age and are attending the same school, they all have different reasons for taking mr. falcon's class. which student is intrinsically motivated to take the english literature class?

Answer 1

I believe the answer is: Ricardo, who believes the course will be easy and will help bring his grade point average up

Intrinsic motivation refers to the motivation that driven by internal rewards.
This would include things such as making a certain action because it makes our life easier, doing the action in order to improve ourselves, doing the action  help us discovering our true passion ,etc.