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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: A THEORETICAL REPRESENTATION OF MOTIVATION AS A CYBERNETIC PROCESS Abstract: Motivation is represented as an information-processing system controlling the goal-related activities of the human system. As a control and information process, it can be analyzed as a cybernetic system. The cybernatic perspective focuses upon a set of operators, their functional relationships, and the changes generated by their actions as realized in the motivational system. Consequently, the characteristic behaviors and constructs of motivation become emergent properties due to the interactions of the operators over a particular activity set. Also, the dynamic process by which the interactions occur is outlined in a series of process charts, emphasizing the interconnections of the process's entities with the operators. The analogy between the motivational operators and the cybernetic operators is developed and mapped into the dynamic process. As a result, the unique form of control representative of motivation is formalized. With such a representation, the control mechanisms of motivation can be identified or instantiated in any complex information-processing system which will need to recognize and implement changes to its behavior on the basis of its own configuration as it lies embedded in a changing environment. |
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