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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Motivating Operations"”.
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An Investigation into Establishing (Motivating) Operations
Motivating Operations (MOs) are a fundamental concept in behavioural psychology. Despite this, empirical research into MOs is lacking. The overall aim of this thesis is to contribute to the experimental literature base for MOs. Experiment 2.1 used an already published video analysis methodology to …
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The Effects of Presession Attention on the Acquisition of Tacts and Intraverbals
… support the notion that there are unconditioned motivating operations associated with attention.</p>
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Motivational State-Dependent Renewal of Operant Responding under Food and Water Deprivation States
… have demonstrated that events that function as motivating operations (MOs) may contribute to relapse following extinction both by a) eliciting interoceptive conditions that serve as a discriminative context for relapse (i.e., the discriminative function) and b) altering the evocative efficacy of …
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Analysis of behavioral indicators as a measure of satiation.
… use of reinforcement in a variety of ways. Motivating operations is an area of research within ABA that focuses on the momentary effectiveness of a reinforcer, altering both its value and associated behaviors. One way in which to manipulate motivating operation effects is through the use of …
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Emergence of vocalization in non vocal children with a diagnosis of autism: building an evidence base for interventions
… mands, echoic mands, echoics and intraverbals. Motivating operations accounted for 65% of initial vocals however 27% first vocals also emerged as intraverbal fill-ins. Time to vocalization, type of vocal emergence and relative successes of the technologies used are explored in this …
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Effects of Deprivation and Testing Procedures on Preference for Stimuli Correlated with Food Reinforcement Under Higher Deprivation Conditions in Mice
A number of recent studies have found that organisms appear to prefer stimuli correlated with food reinforcement under higher food deprivation levels relative to stimuli correlated with food under lower deprivation levels. This has led some researchers to assume a general relation between food …