Cognition and Motivation: Forging an Interdisciplinary Perspective

by Edited by Shulamith Kreitler

• ISBN13: 9780521888677
• ISBN10: 0521888670
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-11-19
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This collection examines the many internal and external factors affecting cognitive processes. Editor Shulamith Kreitler brings together a wide range of international contributors to produce an outstanding assessment of recent research in the field. These contributions go beyond the standard approach of examining the effects of motivation and emotion to consider the contextual factors that may influence cognition. These broad and varied factors include personality, genetics, mental health, biological evolution, culture, and social context. By contextualizing cognition, this volume draws out the practical applications of theoretical cognitive research while bringing separate areas of scholarship into meaningful dialogue.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Explanatory Concepts and Contexts

The role of epistemic motivations in knowledge formation

The structure and dynamics of cognitive orientation: a motivational approach to cognition

Personality and cognition

Cognition in the context of psychopathology: a selective review

The impact of anxiety on cognitive performance

Biological foundations: the SEEKING system as an affective source for motivation and cognition

Motivation, cognition and emotion: a phylogenetic-interdisciplinary approach

The social and cultural context of cognition: a knowledge perspective

Biological models of organisms and their evolutionary change: their importance for epistemology and different cultural traditions

What do genes have to do with cognition?

Brain, behavior and cognition

Physical health and cognition

Domains of Cognition in Context

Motivation, goals, thinking and problem solving

Motivation and heuristic thinking

Motivation, decision theory and human decision making

Cognitive science and knowledge management: reflecting the limits of decision making

Interest and cognition: the case of L- and science

Metacognition, motivation, and affect in the school context: metacognitive experiences in the regulation of learning

Motivation in language

Intelligence and cognitive exceptionality

How conscious thought, imagination and fantasy may relate to cognition and motivation

Creativity and motivation

Index

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