PSYC 3405 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Operant Conditioning, Learned Helplessness, List Of Fables Characters
6 Mar 2014
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4 long answers (1/2 a page) 10 points. Form mental reps of the ideal state (called template) Formulate plan to remove incongruence (discrepancy is a motivational agent) Engage the cognitive mechanism of tote: t = test, o = operate, t = test, e = exit. Operate (act: operate on the environment to reduce the incongruence (difference that makes the present not the ideal present) Test (retest: see if you have reached a particular goal or state. Exit (match found: ex: doing a paper, with a notion of what you want to submit. Ideal template? , if not, you do more revision, and then see if it works out this time. Once it is acceptable, and have removed the incongruence, you submit it. Change the plan (maybe the plan isn"t good. Maybe the bar is too high), the behavior, or forget it.
