Behavior Change Procedure Test 2 Practice

The sun shining in your eyes illustrates a motivating operation that is unconditioned. It creates immediate discomfort, which increases the value of wearing sunglasses to escape or reduce that discomfort. Because this effect comes from a basic biological state rather than prior learning, it’s classified as an unconditioned motivating operation. It isn’t a conditioned motivating operation, since there’s no learned association making sunglasses desirable due to a prior neutral stimulus.