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WHERE’S THERE’S THE MOST LIGHT: MOTIVATION AND BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS. M. JACKSON MARR, PH.D. GEORGIA TECH. STRANGER THAN FICTION. INTELLIGENCE PERSONALITY ATTENTION INTENTION BELIEF EXPECTATION MIND MOTIVATION. MOTIVATION. WHAT IT IS NOT: A thing or quality possessed by an organism.
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WHERE’S THERE’S THE MOST LIGHT:MOTIVATION AND BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS M. JACKSON MARR, PH.D. GEORGIA TECH
STRANGERTHAN FICTION INTELLIGENCE PERSONALITY ATTENTION INTENTION BELIEF EXPECTATION MIND MOTIVATION
MOTIVATION WHAT IT IS NOT: A thing or quality possessed by an organism. (i.e., it’s not like a nose) 2. An explanatory concept. (e.g., The problem of circular definition with terms like “drive” and “will power”) Reflective of teleology. ( The future ain’t happened yet.)
WHAT IS IT THEN? Can refer to a field of study devoted to the specification and analysis of those variables that control the (1) reinforcing, (2) punishing, (3) discriminative, and (4) eliciting properties of events.
ESTABLISHING or MOTIVATIONAL OPERATIONS/CONDITIONS • These conditions are comparable to initial and boundary conditions in physics and include: • (1) deprivation • (2) stimulation • (3) temporal variations • (4) social context • (5) experiential history • (6) physiological states
WHAT IS IT THEN? Can refer to a field of study devoted to the specification and analysis of those variables that control the (1) reinforcing, (2) punishing, (3) discriminative, and (4) eliciting properties of events.
ESTABLISHING or MOTIVATIONAL OPERATIONS/CONDITIONS • These conditions are comparable to initial and boundary conditions in physics and include: • (1) deprivation • (2) stimulation • (3) temporal variations • (4) social context • (5) experiential history • (6) physiological states
LIKE MOTIVATION, A REINFORCER IS NOT A THING EITHER.
SD SR Ro SD: discriminative stimulus Ro: operant class SR: reinforcer Three-term Contingency F: force m: mass dv/dt: acceleration Newton’s Second Law of Motion
MEN ACT UPON THE WORLD, AND CHANGE IT, AND ARE CHANGED IN TURN BY THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR ACTION.B. F. Skinner, Verbal Behavior, 1957, p. 1
O-rules, functional relations B = f (r) r: feedback B: output E-rules, feedback functions r = g (B) Figure 1. The behavior-environment feedback system Operant Conditioning