Motivating the Journey: An Integrative Framework of Prevention Versus Promotion Goal Pursuit Activities

Does a focus on gains versus non-losses influence the kinds of activities people are motivated to use when pursuing their goals? This paper proposes that the prevention and promotion systems posited within regulatory focus theory motivate fundamentally different activities in the process of goal pursuit. We present a novel, integrative framework of regulatory focus-specific goal pursuit process activities and provide initial evidence testing this framework. First, across two studies involving activity sorting tasks, we predicted that participants would consistently categorize activities from the proposed framework as reflecting the hypothesized regulatory focus, and in making these categorization decisions, would sort regulatory focus-specific process activities from the proposed framework more quickly than more general goal pursuit process activities. Furthermore, in two follow-up studies probing activity accessibility, we hypothesized that motivationally relevant process activities (i.e., those reflecting individual differences in participants’ own regulatory focus) would be more accessible as measured by output primacy than process activities that were not motivationally relevant. Across these four studies, using both correlational and experimental methods, we found converging evidence in support of these predictions and our proposed framework. We suggest that this framework provides new insight into the motivational antecedents of distinct goal pursuit activities. Furthermore, it may be useful in generating new hypotheses about how best to motivate effective goal pursuit processes.

Research on Household Waste Detection System Based on Deep Learning

Household waste is threatening the urban environment increasingly day by day for people’s material needs increasing with the acceleration of urbanization. In this paper, a new waste sorting model is proposed to solve the problems of waste sorting. The style transfer was used to increase the data set to make some objects be sorted well. Then the rotational attention mechanism model was used to increase the accuracy of waste sorting of the blocked objects. The representation vector extraction module in the target tracking algorithm Deep Sort was replaced with Siamese network to make the network more lightweight. As a result, this paper effectively solves the current waste sorting tasks.

Comparing unfamiliar voice and face identity perception using identity sorting tasks

Identity sorting tasks, in which participants sort multiple naturally varying stimuli of usually two identities into perceived identities, have recently gained popularity in voice and face processing research. In both modalities, participants who are unfamiliar with the identities tend to perceive multiple stimuli of the same identity as different people and thus fail to “tell people together.” These similarities across modalities suggest that modality-general mechanisms may underpin sorting behaviour. In this study, participants completed a voice sorting and a face sorting task. Taking an individual differences approach, we asked whether participants’ performance on voice and face sorting of unfamiliar identities is correlated. Participants additionally completed a voice discrimination (Bangor Voice Matching Test) and a face discrimination task (Glasgow Face Matching Test). Using these tasks, we tested whether performance on sorting related to explicit identity discrimination. Performance on voice sorting and face sorting tasks was correlated, suggesting that common modality-general processes underpin these tasks. However, no significant correlations were found between sorting and discrimination performance, with the exception of significant relationships for performance on “same identity” trials with “telling people together” for voices and faces. Overall, any reported relationships were however relatively weak, suggesting the presence of additional modality-specific and task-specific processes.

Tactical Sorting of Managerial Tasks During Their Administration by Means of Priority, Specifications and Affiliations Labels

The article analyzes the specifics of the functional programs for managing strategic, tactical and operational tasks. A technique for prefixing operational task names with tactical labels of Priorities, Specifications and Affiliations is proposed. Label abbreviations are formed in such a way as to ensure the correct prioritization when sorting tasks in alphabetical order. The quadrants of the D. Eisenhower Priorities matrix are indicated by two-letter marks: important urgently (IF – Important, Fast); important indefinitely (IS – Important, Slow); not important, but promptly (UF – Unimportant, Fast): neither important nor urgent (US – Unimportant, Slow). The labels of the Specifications matrix for the information environment (RA, RI, SA, SI) are composed of mutually exclusive properties of the availability of the Network (I – Internet and A – Autonomous) and the presence of reduced or special functionality (R – Reduced and S – Special). Labels of the transport specification (TA, TB, TC, TP) allow you to sort tasks that require moving (T – Translocation) on an airplane (A), a bus (B), a car (C) and on foot (P – Pedestrian), respectively. Three-letter marks of Affiliations (belonging to an individual or legal entity) are formed from the first letters of the name, middle name and last name or name of the laboratory, company, project. Tactical marks accelerate decision-making when forming a daily list of operational tasks.

Exploring Faculty and Student Frameworks for Engineering Knowledge Using an Online Card Sorting Platform

In this study we investigate how faculty and students think about engineering us-ing a technique new to engineering education: card sorting. In card sorting partic-ipants sort stimuli (cards) into groups, in the process revealing how they catego-rize information. Here we examine how both engineering faculty (n=23) and first-year undergraduate students (n=62) categorize engineering scenarios. We found engineering faculty sort based on cross-disciplinary engineering activities rather than engineering disciplines. This is a surprising result as our educational frameworks are based around disciplines, and yet they are not the primary way in which faculty think. First-year students, on the other hand, showed little consen-sus on how to sort the scenarios. As a part of this paper we unveil an online card sorting platform Collection and Analysis of Research Data for Sorting (CARDS). CARDS allows researchers to create card sorting tasks, distribute them to participants for remote data collection, and analyze quantitative results.

Comparing unfamiliar voice and face identity perception using identity sorting tasks

Identity sorting tasks, where participants sort a number of naturally varying stimuli of usually two identities into perceived identities, have recently gained popularity in voice and face processing research. For both modalities, striking similarities in the results of these sorting tasks are apparent: Participants who are unfamiliar with the identities usually struggle to accurately perceive identities from these variable stimuli. They tend to perceive multiple stimuli of the same identity as different people and thus fail to “tell people together”. These similarities in the reported results may suggest that modality-general mechanisms underpin the completion of sorting tasks. In the current study, participants completed a voice sorting and a face sorting task. Taking an individual differences approach, we therefore asked whether there is a relationship between participants’ performance on voice and face sorting of unfamiliar identities. Participants additionally completed a voice discrimination (Bangor Voice Matching Test) and face discrimination task (Glasgow Face Matching Test). Using these data, we furthermore tested whether performance on sorting tasks can be related to explicit identity discrimination tasks. Performance on voice sorting and face sorting tasks was correlated, suggesting that common modality-general processes underpin these tasks. However, these do not straightforwardly appear to be the same processes supporting identity discrimination: No significant correlations were found between sorting and discrimination performance, with the exception of significant relationships when correlating performance on same trials with “telling people together” for voices and faces. Overall, the reported relationships were relatively weak, suggesting the presence of additional modality-specific and task-specific processes.