کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
2428052 1105993 2007 17 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Some conceptual problems with the classical theory of behaviour
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک علوم دامی و جانورشناسی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Some conceptual problems with the classical theory of behaviour
چکیده انگلیسی

Behaviour is usually assumed to depend on the reach of a critical intensity—termed reactivity threshold—by its motivation. This view represents a simple, predictive theoretical framework in ethology and animal psychology. However, it is here argued that only the influence of an isolated motivation on behaviour can be explained that way; that such a view fails to account for behaviour when several motivations are jointly activated. Upon analysis, the classical theory of behaviour (CTB) proves to be under-specified and thus leads to three conceptual problems that make it logically inconsistent for the study of multiple motivations. A revision of the CTB, called anticipatory dynamics model (ADM), is then developed in order to bring a theoretical solution to these conceptual problems. The ADM hypothesizes that an organism's motivational interactions are due to the limitation of the organism's attentional resources.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Behavioural Processes - Volume 75, Issue 3, July 2007, Pages 259–275
نویسندگان
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