ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests a particular way of analyzing the problems of motivation within the context of Jerzy Konorski's general approach. There is an implication that the problem of motivation is closely related to that of memory. Konorski is quite specific that motivational states involve the activation of images, such as that of the smell of a particular food or the sight of a particular food tray. For Konorski, however, the factors involved in response selection are very heterogeneous, which may explain why he used the general terms "motivation" and "motivational" so seldom, and why he indicated skepticism concerning their usefulness by enclosing them typically in quotation marks. The distinction between the motivational and the nonmotivational causes of a response has sometimes been expressed by distinguishing the "energizing" effects of variables like food deprivation, from the "associative" effects of factors such as specific external stimuli.
