Poling Alan, Lotfizadeh Amin D, Edwards Timothy L
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI USA.
Easterseals Southern California, Irvine, CA USA.
Behav Anal Pract. 2019 Dec 18;13(2):502-508. doi: 10.1007/s40617-019-00400-2. eCollection 2020 Jun.
The motivating operations concept has been of considerable interest and practical value to behavior analysts, including practitioners. Nonetheless, the concept has generated substantial controversy and has significant limitations. To address some of these limitations, we suggest that it would be wise to redefine motivating operations, to deemphasize the importance that has historically been placed on subtypes of conditioned motivating operations, to emphasize how motivating operations and discriminative stimuli interact, and to further examine the kinds of environmental changes that alter the reinforcing value of particular kinds of stimuli. These suggestions are detailed elsewhere and summarized in this article.
动机操作概念一直受到行为分析师（包括从业者）的广泛关注并具有实用价值。尽管如此，该概念引发了大量争议且存在重大局限性。为解决其中一些局限性，我们建议明智的做法是重新定义动机操作，不再强调历史上对条件性动机操作子类型的重视，强调动机操作与辨别性刺激如何相互作用，并进一步研究改变特定类型刺激强化价值的环境变化类型。这些建议在其他地方有详细阐述，并在本文中进行了总结。
