THE EFFECT OF GOAL-DISTANCE UPON GOAL-DIRECTED WALKING

10 Goal - directed imitation

“Stop copying me!” shrieks a friend’s seven-year-old as she admires her bead-bedecked image in the mirror. “I not copying!” responds her three-year-old sister indignantly, while fingering rows of beaded necklaces around her own neck. Anyone who has observed a similar scene knows that a heated argument follows about “what counts” as copying, and whether playing with beads might be the result of ...

Efficient Goal-Directed Exploration

If a state space is not completely known in advance, then search algorithms have to explore it sufficiently to locate a goal state and a path leading to it, performing therefore what we call goal-directed exploration. Two paradigms of this process are pure exploration and heuristic-driven exploitation: the former approaches explore the state space using only knowledge of the physically visited ...

Goal-directed Proof Theory

Goal-directed actions

Anticipatory, Goal-Directed Behavior

As Man is a reasonable Being, and is continually in Pursuit of Happiness, which he hopes to find in the Gratification of some Passion or Affection, he seldom acts or speaks or thinks without a Purpose and Intention. He has still some Object in View; and however improper the Means may sometimes be, which he causes for the Attainments of his End, he never loses View of an End, nor will he so much...