FOUNDATIONAL TERM
Motivation
动机
Processes initiating, sustaining and directing behaviour.
Study this concept in context
27 · Motivation, reward and habits
Wanting, starting and automatically repeating an action are different processes. Behaviour change involves goals, consequences, environmental cues and effort rather than willpower alone.
Sources
- OpenStax Psychology: motivation
- OpenStax Psychology: operant conditioning
- University of Surrey: Habit formation, interview with researcher Pippa Lally
- Berridge and Robinson 2016: Liking, wanting and addiction — abstract
- NIH News in Health: Biology of addiction
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