A goal of epigenetic robotics is to design a control architecture that implements an ongoing, autonomous developmental process which is unsupervised, unscheduled, and taskindependent. The developmental process we are currently exploring contains three essential mechanisms: categorization, prediction, and intrinsic motivation. In this paper we describe a hybrid approach that uses Growing Neural ...

Intrinsic motivation can be predicted from participants’ perceptions of the social environment and the task environment (Ryan & Deci, 2000)in terms of control, relatedness and competence. To determine the degree of independence of these factors 251 students in higher vocational education (physiotherapy and hotel management) indicated the extent to which they perceived control, relatedness, and ...

Teachers can often readily identify students who demonstrate high or low motivation in a certain task. Motivated students engage in the task with intensity and feeling, whereas unmotivated students procrastinate and indicate in other ways that they would rather do something else. These differences exemplify the quantitative dimension of motivation, ranging from high to low. Teachers can often a...

A central tenet of economics is that individuals respond to incentives. For psychologists and sociologists, in contrast, rewards and punishments are often counterproductive, because they undermine “intrinsic motivation”. We reconcile these two views, showing how performance incentives offered by an informed principal (manager, teacher, parent) can adversely impact an agent’s (worker, child) per...

Knowledge transfer was the most important factors of success for organizations in today's complex and changing environment as one of aspects of knowledge management. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation by transfer the employee’s knowledge in social security organizations in Kerman. The method research is descriptive and...

In this paper, we have focused on the Self-Determination Theory, paying special attention to intrinsic motivation, which is understood as motivation that leads subject perform a task without expectation of obtaining an external reward. field sport, one most studied variables and researched, since it closely related reasons lead athletes start, maintain, abandon sports practice. The main objecti...

Humans and other biological agents are able to autonomously learn and cache different skills in the absence of any biological pressure or any assigned task. In this respect, Intrinsic Motivations (i.e., motivations not connected to reward-related stimuli) play a cardinal role in animal learning, and can be considered as a fundamental tool for developing more autonomous and more adaptive artific...

background: test anxiety aggravates psychological distress and reduces the motivation among graduate students. this study aimed to identify psychological intervention for test anxiety, which reduces the level of psychological distress, amotivation and increases the intrinsic and extrinsic motivation among medical students. materials and methods: westside test anxiety scale, kessler perceived st...

This study primarily focused on the behavioral modifications among employees while keeping contextual factors that enable them to strive for sustainable environmental performance in view. The aim of this research was uncover impact GHRM practices intrinsic motivation (IM), harmonious work passion (HWP), and (SEP) small medium enterprises Uzbekistan. Moreover, mainly investigated as potential me...