STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION IN THE TRAINING PROCESS AND ITS RELATION TO THE REWARDS FROM SUPERIORS FOR GETTING BETTER PERFORMANCE

This article presents a research on the influence of positive reinforcements on the motivation of civilian and military students in the training process and its relation with the rewards given from the superiors for getting better performance at the university. The study is conducted in a real educational environment. The subject of the study is the positive reinforcements and the end results in the training process. The object of the study are cadets in the last year of their education in the Military Science professional field, specialising in Organisation and Management of Military Units at a Tactical Level at the National Military University in Bulgaria. In the course of the theoretical research, there were studied the motivational theories of needs, socially acquired knowledge, behavioural, cognitive, psychoanalytic and biological motivational theories.