Goal-oriented behavior

N. ACCUMBENS SHELL DOPAMINE AND THE UTILIZATION OF SPATIAL MEMORY FOR GOAL-ORIENTED BEHAVIOR... 

Enhancer regulation in the brain heralds a new line of research. It brings a different perspective to brain-organized, goal-oriented behavior since it seems to represent the device in the mammalian brain that operates as the... 

In principle it might be a Pavlovian habit related to the establishement of a direct association between a Pavlovian CS and an UR (see Cardinal et ah, 2004). Another possibility is that automatic responding is an instrumental habit related to learning of an instrumental stimulus-response (S-R) association. An instrumental habit is more likely to account for the relative flexibility of the behavior as indicated by the ability to rapidly switch to an explicit goal-oriented mode when the automatic responding is impaired. 

Arbas, E.A., Willis, M.A. Kanzaki, R. 1993. Organization of goal-oriented locomotion Pheromone-modulated flight behavior of moths. In Biological Neural Networks in Invertebrate Neuroethology and Robotics (Ed. by R.D. Beer, R.E. Ritzmann and T. McKenna), pp 159—198. San Diego Academic Press. 

A reward given on the basis of generally positive behavior—not tied to a specific goal, such as zero lost-time accidents—places the emphasis on safe behavior. This approach removes the direct link between the reward and the goal-oriented outcome so that injury-hiding is avoided. It emphasizes the process, not the goal. 

Goals are action-oriented statements describing desired behavior resulting... 

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