Positive-incentive value is the anticipated
pleasure involved in the performance of a particular
behavior
Behavior (American English) or behaviour (British English) is the range of actions of Individual, individuals, organisms, systems or Artificial intelligence, artificial entities in some environment. These systems can include other systems or or ...
, such as eating a particular
food
Food is any substance consumed by an organism for Nutrient, nutritional support. Food is usually of plant, animal, or Fungus, fungal origin and contains essential nutrients such as carbohydrates, fats, protein (nutrient), proteins, vitamins, ...
or drinking a particular
beverage.
[Hockenbury, D. H., & Hockenbury, S. E. (2002). Psychology. (3rd ed. ed., p. 333). Worth Pub.] It is a key element of the
positive-incentive theories of hunger.
See also
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Incentive
In general, incentives are anything that persuade a person or organization to alter their behavior to produce the desired outcome. The laws of economists and of behavior state that higher incentives amount to greater levels of effort and therefo ...
References
Motivation
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