MOTIVATIONAL VIEW OF LEARNING, PERFORMANCE, AND BEHAVIOR-MODIFICATION
MOTIVATIONAL VIEW OF LEARNING, PERFORMANCE, AND BEHAVIOR-MODIFICATION
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DOI:
10.1037/h0036330
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发表时间:
1974-01-01
影响因子:
5.4
通讯作者:
BINDRA, D
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作者:
BINDRA, D
Advances a theory of learning which wholly discards the response-reinforcement principle. It attributes learned behavior modifications to the building of central representations of contingencies between situational stimuli and incentive stimuli; certain situational stimuli are thereby turned into conditioned incentive-discriminative stimuli. It is proposed that central motivational states, generated by the joint influence of organismic-state variables and unconditioned or conditioned incentive stimuli, influence the response-eliciting potency of particular situational stimuli. The specific response form that emerges is a fresh construction created by the momentary motivational state and the spatio-temporal distribution of various distal and contact discriminative-incentive stimuli in the situation. These and related working assumptions are shown to clarify certain long-standing problems of behavior theory and to provide a basis for deriving satisfactory interpretations of several hitherto perplexing phenomena of conditioning, motivational modulation of instrumental behavior, and observational learning.(2 p ref)(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)