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On the Distinction Between the Motivating Operation and Setting Event Concepts.
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
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- "I Can't Afford the Copays, So Guess I'll Die?" Using Discounting Methodology to Quantify How Cost Affects Health-Care Utilization.Behavior and social issues · 2024Article
- The Evolution of the Conceptually Systematic Dimension and Its Current Functions in Applied Behavior Analysis.Perspectives on behavior science · 2024Review
- Utilising Interview Methodology to Inform the Development of New Clinical Assessment Tools for Anxiety in Autistic Individuals Who Speak Few or no Words.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2023Article
- Changes in Magnitude and Variability of Corticospinal Excitability During Rewarded Time-Sensitive Behavior.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2019Article
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Abstract
In recent decades, behavior analysts have generally used two different concepts to speak about motivational influences on operant contingencies: setting event and motivating operation. Although both concepts still appear in the contemporary behavior-analytic literature and were designed to address the same antecedent phenomena, the concepts are quite different. The purpose of the present article is to describe and distinguish the concepts and to illustrate their current usage.
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