Exam 3 Behavioral Motivation

3. increases value & demand for deprived substance
6. provides information on progress made towards the goal
7. how goal is perceived (to avoid loss or gain something)
11. heuristics where you group things because they of resemblance
12. compare our-selfs to others to set performance goals
16. subjective properties of how incentive benefits us, or helps avoid pain
17. objective quantity or number of the incentive
18. motivation freely chosen
20. goal visualization
21. when there are options to chose from, you just need them to meet minimum requirements set by you
23. thoughts about fantasies on goal achievement
25. demand of things we like but not necessarily need
26. heuristics where option selected based on fast the option appears in your mind
27. demand of basic things we need
29. less chances for behavior expression
30. motivation caused by external reasons

1. cognitive mental images of how far where we are in the environment from our goal
2. when goal is set to be obtained
4. Law says that objective value increases, and utility increases in smaller amounts
5. method finding the best and easiest route fast
8. when preference for incentives first is small, but with time preference changes to larger incentives (time waiting does not matter)
9. cognitive theory/reduced intrinsic motivation when adding extrinsic motivation (when motivation originally intrinsic)
10. incentive you wish to achieve/obtain
13. effects/incentive motivation depends on experiences from the past
14. effect is the replacement of one reinforcer by another that serves the same purpose
15. when your performance matches the skill level needed
17. level/ our desire to do better and gain things
19. how precise the goal is pictured
22. Principle of least effort/ finding the easiest way to achieve goal with little use of energy (if possible)
24. how hard it will be to obtain your goal
28. law by Skinner that states we work harder when deprived of that reward we like/enjoy