PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Sleep Deprivation

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Prologue: people use the idea of motivation frequently to: explain differences in peoples behaviors, account for people"s preferences for different activities, assign responsibility for people"s actions, explain why people persevere despite obstacles and adversity. Defining motivation motivation - the act or process of motivating - to provide with a motive . Broad motives achievement motive - the desire to success and make significant and valuable accomplishments. A behavior analytic view: manipulate motivation as an antecedent, we want to enhance the motivation of individuals in interventions to modify their behavior - enhanced motivation increased the likelihood of behavior change. Unconditioned motivating operations (umos) have inborn value-altering effects on consequences; that is, these effects were not learned - oxygen deprivation, sex deprivation, sleep deprivation, body becoming too cold or too warm, increase in painful stimulation. Conditioned motivating operations (cmos) alter a consequence"s effectiveness; that is, they have value-altering effects, as a result of prior learning.

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