Abstract

PEREIRA ALOI, Pedro Eugênio; BENDER HAYDU, Verônica  and  CARMO, João dos Santos. Motivation in teaching and learning: some contributions of Behavior Analysis. CES Psicol [online]. 2014, vol.7, n.2, pp.138-152. ISSN 2011-3080.

The concept of motivation has been a topic regularly researched and studied by psychologists, having arisen in the context of psychotherapy, psychometry and the learning study. In the literature of behavioral analysis it first appeared in the Skinner's work "The Behavior of Organisms", and reached its current definition with the studies on motivating operations. This study of theme review aims to describe and discuss the concept of motivation based on principles of behavior analysis in its interface with the area of Education. In addition, practical directions of how to produce motivating operations in the classroom are presented. Types of motivating operations are specified and some motivational operations for studying behavior are suggested

Keywords : Motivation; Motivating Operations; Teaching; Learning; Behavior Analysis.

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