motivational system

The fact that people adapt quickly to new circumstances, good or bad, is just a design feature of the brain's motivational system.

The motivational system of the developing male makes a positive contribution to separation in these animals.

The motivational system works largely by a reward-punishment mechanism.

Some evidence may consist of tightly controlled laboratory experiments on motivational systems or genetics.

The transactions of our perceptual, cognitive, and motivational systems occur primarily between ourselves and another.

Motivational systems, generating internal reward signals that drive exploration and learning, which can be of two main types:

The motivational system in the brain monitors the current state of satisfaction of these goals, and activates behaviors to meet any needs that arise.

The purpose of the human motivational system, according to psychologists, is not to make people feel happy, but rather to motivate actions that promote successful life outcomes.

"There are bureaucratic overgrowths, erroneous motivational systems, shortcomings in the organization of labor, lack of respect for social property," he said.

The motivational system of a higher organism is complex, comprising several distinct types of mechanism expressed through differing behavioural means.

Emotion regulation is involved in three major motivational systems central to couples therapy - styles of attachment, identity or working models of self and other, and attraction.

Through the use of an evolving, topical discussion guide and psychoanalytical tools, the motivational system around the topic, be it a brand, safety, work or advertising, is explored.

Scientific, technological, and academic advances initially emerged from the cognitive and motivational systems that support folk psychology, folk biology, and folk physics.

Mr. Flax, who runs Motivational Systems Inc., of West Orange, N.J., helped her modify that behavior.

The weaver bird study suggested that the motivational systems of individual members of different species were producing contrasting strategies of dispersion and pair formation neatly graded to suit environmental conditions.

Thus far evidence supports a process whereby cholinergic activation from the brain stem during REM activates the motivational system of the mesolimbic and mesocortical dopaminergic pathways.

The motivational system is akin to the game of pinball, the analogy that if you win this round, you get to play the game again; that is, build the next generation of computers.

Hughes states "Whether it is a motivational system separate from attachment as is suggested by Stern (2004), or a central aspect of a secure attachment dyad, it remains vital in the child's overall development."

Roger Flax, president of Motivational Systems Inc., a behavioral consulting firm in West Orange, N.J., recalls successfully counseling a vice president of a paper goods company and his chief assistant.

The system was covered by two other patents: one for a motivational system to convert cycle speed into a virtual energy; a second covered the gearboxed resistance unit that dispensed with the need for a large, separate flywheel.

"A Review of Theodoro Ayllon and Nathan Azrin: The Token Economy: A Motivational System for Therapy and Rehabilitation," Reviewed by Aubrey C. Daniels, Contemporary Psychology.

As a result, baby might gradually develop his/her own boundaries and acknowledge those of his or her object and might invest their own innate abilities to participate in human interactions and enjoy relationships ("motivational systems," Emde, 1988).

The standard behavioral treatment for functional encopresis, which has been shown to be highly effective is a motivational system such as a contingency management system In addition to this basic component, seven or eight other behavioral treatment components can be added to increase effectiveness.

"My proposal is this: Dreaming can occur as a result of anything that arouses the sleeper," Dr. Solms writes in the journal, but only when the stimulus in question "excites the motivational systems of the forebrain and thereby initiates a goal-directed intention."

In The Cult of Free Enterprise, author (and former Amway distributor) Stephen Butterfield wrote "[Amway] sells a marketing and motivational system, a cause, a way of life, in a fervid emotional atmosphere of rallies and political religious revivalism."