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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Incentive Motivation"”.
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The Influence of an Appetitive Conditioned Stimulus on Interval Timing Behavior
<p>Pavlovian incentive motivation provides a theoretical framework on the basis of which experiments can be designed to examine the effects of motivational variables on timing behavior. The Pavlovian-Instrumental transfer (PIT) paradigm is a prototype for studying Pavlovian incentive motivation. …
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Case Study: Breastfeeding Facilitation and Initiation within one Prison Nursery Program
… facilitation, observational learning, and incentive motivation were assessed. Through an administrative perspective, the results provided a better understanding of prison nursery programs and shed light on the realities of breastfeeding mothers caring for children while incarcerated. It is …
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The Role of Affect and Trait Sexual Desire in Sexual Response among Women with and without Symptoms of Sexual Interest and Arousal Disorder
According to the Incentive Motivation Model, sexual cue processing is influenced by both responses to the content of sexual cues, and by individual psychological factors, both of which may result in differences in sexual response. Affect to sexual cues has been shown to affect sexual response in …
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The ins and outs of pleasure: roles and importance of hedonic value
… the positive effect of pleasure on goal-directed motivation was established: participants were found to press a food trigger harder for highly palatable snacks compared to bland snacks, even though participants were not informed about the hidden measurement of forces. Additionally, the impact of …
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The Role of Cdk5 in the Regulation of Dopamine Neurotransmission, Neuronal Excitability, and Reward-Related Behavior
… of signal transduction pathways that regulate motivation and rewardrelated behavior, we developed several Cre/loxP conditional knock-out systems that allow temporal and spatial control of Cdk5 expression in the adult brain. Loss of Cdk5 in the adult brain increased the psychomotor-activating …
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The application of Machine Learning for Early Detection of At -Risk Learners in Massive Open Online Courses
… the project seeks to explore the association of motivational trajectories, performance trajectories, engagement levels and latent engagement with the withdrawal rate. To achieve this goal, the first objective is to derive learners’ motivations based on Incentive Motivation theory. The Learning …
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Illuminating Pay Secrecy: Construct Clarification and an Exploration of Effects via the Incentive and Sorting Tracks
… secrecy is undesirable because it obscures the motivational properties of pay and does not prevent people from making pay comparisons, nor safeguard them from the resulting dissatisfaction. Despite the popularity of pay secrecy in organizations today, extant research has failed to provide any …