FRHD 3150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Motivation, Positive Feedback

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 3150
• Professor: Christopher Quinn

Document Summary

Behaviourists see motivation are externally controlled (primarily) They use (cid:498)motivation(cid:499) and (cid:498)motivating operations(cid:499) as synonyms. Motivating operations (mos) events or operations that: temporarily alter the effectiveness of consequences as reinforcers or punishers (value-altering effect, influence behaviours that normally lead to those reinforcers or punishers (behaviour-altering effect) Motivating establishing operations (meos): increases the effectiveness of a consequence as a reinforcer. Motivating abolishing operations (maos): decreases the effectiveness of a consequence as a reinforcer i. e. deprivation increases the effectiveness of the reward. Being full decreases the effectiveness as food as a reward. Conditioned motivating operations (cmos): value-altering effect is learned, behaviour-altering effect is learned. Value operating effect: the influence on the value placed on the reinforcer or punisher. Behaviour operating effect: the influence on the behaviour which normally leads to that reinforcer or punisher. S^delta: to a reinforcer that you want. Cmao: reinforcer in the past decreases behaviour that led to that consequence.