Webinar: Motivation, Behaviour and the Brain

COST:

$30 for Active NACSW Instructors

$40 for General Public including Lapsed NACSW Instructors and those who have registered for an instructor course but have not yet attended Segment 1.

INSTRUCTOR: Simon Gadbois, PhD
Length: 90 Minutes

WEBINAR DESCRIPTION:

A great experimental psychologist, Woodworth (from the beginning of the last century), argued that psychology should be the science of motivation, and even suggested to call this new science “motivology.” Although the concept of motivation was frowned upon by the early Behaviourists, because, after all, it is a mentalistic concept, some quickly made an exception (Hull, Tolman, etc) to incorporate drive and incentive theories of motivation. The modern theory, in both neuroscience and psychology, is the incentive theory of motivation. It explains a broad range of phenomena, from the foundations of learning itself, to specific processes, such as intrinsic motivation, auto-shaping, intermittent reinforcement, sign-tracking, and even pathologies. We will discuss the contribution of a few contemporary scientists on this issue, specifically Anselme, Berridge, Panksepp and a few more. We will also quickly link this literature to scent processing, specifically “exploratory sniffing” as the ultimate “seeking” behaviour in many mammals.

CEUs: 3 for CNWI
CPDT CEUs: 1.5 CEUs

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