goal-seeking
Driven toward objectives
Goal-seeking describes behavior oriented toward achieving a specific objective.
In computing and spreadsheet software, goal-seeking is a function that works backward from a desired result to find the input values needed to produce it: Use goal-seeking to determine what sales volume hits your revenue target.
More broadly, goal-seeking characterizes systems, organisms, or strategies that adjust their actions to reach a predetermined end state.
Impetus toward a goal
- driveOperate a vehicle
- ambitionDesire for achievement
- persistenceContinuing despite difficulty
- determinationFirmness of purpose
striving · tenacity · aspiration · pursuit · purposeful · focused · single-minded · dogged
Stimulus-directed movement
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
- foragingSeeking wild food sources
- predationHunting and consuming prey
- migrationMovement to new territory
chemotaxis · survival · homeostatic · appetitive · orienting · stimulus-response · navigation · sensory
Self-modifying cyclical process
- control systemMechanism that regulates behavior
- homeostasisBiological internal stability maintenance
- self-correctingAutomatically fixing own errors
- servomechanismFeedback-controlled automatic mechanism
thermostat · guidance system · negative feedback · regulation · error correction · Norbert Wiener · autopilot · homing
Finite problem-solving procedure
- optimizationMaximizing efficiency or performance
- heuristicPractical solving shortcut
- searchAct of seeking
- pathfindingCalculating efficient travel routes
reinforcement learning · fitness · convergence · iteration · agent · utility · machine learning · neural network
motivation
Impetus toward a goal
- driveOperate a vehicle
- ambitionDesire for achievement
- persistenceContinuing despite difficulty
determination · striving · tenacity · aspiration · pursuit · purposeful · focused · single-minded · dogged · relentless
tropism
Stimulus-directed movement
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
- foragingSeeking wild food sources
- predationHunting and consuming prey
migration · chemotaxis · survival · homeostatic · appetitive · orienting · stimulus-response · navigation · sensory · locomotion
feedback loop
Self-modifying cyclical process
- control systemMechanism that regulates behavior
- homeostasisBiological internal stability maintenance
- self-correctingAutomatically fixing own errors
servomechanism · thermostat · guidance system · negative feedback · regulation · error correction · Norbert Wiener · autopilot · homing · target acquisition
algorithm
Finite problem-solving procedure
- optimizationMaximizing efficiency or performance
- heuristicPractical solving shortcut
- searchAct of seeking
pathfinding · reinforcement learning · fitness · convergence · iteration · agent · utility · machine learning · neural network · decision-making
- purposeaim, purpose, objective, mission, intention
- CyberneticsNorbert Wiener, feedback loops, control systems, self-regulation, homeostasis
- instinctsinstinct, survival instinct, survival instincts, maternal instinct, gut instinct
goal-seekingaimless
Having no direction
purposeless · directionless · wandering · drifting · undirected
goal-seekingreactive
Tending to respond
reflexive · instinctive · habitual · automatic · mechanical
goal, goals, goalie, goalies, goalkeeper, goalkeepers, goalless, seek, seeks