Cognition and motivation
Subtitle: forging an interdisciplinary perspective
By: [edited by] Shulamith Kreitler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 506
ISBN-13: 9780521888677
Subjects: Cognition; Motivation
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The role of epistemic motivations in knowledge formation / Arie W. Kruglanski and Anna Sheveland; title: The structure and dynamics of cognitive orientation : a motivational approach to cognition / Shulamith Kreitler; title: Personality and cognition / Phillip L. Ackerman; title: Cognition in the context of psychopathology : a selective review / Josef Zihl, Nicole Szesny, & Thomas Nickel; title: The impact of anxiety on cognitive performance / Michael W. Eysenck; title: Biological foundations : the seeking system as an affective source for motivation and cognition / Jeff Stewart and Jaak Panksepp; title: Motivation, cognition and emotion : a phylogenetic interdisciplinary approach / Manfred Wimmer; title: The social and cultural context of cognition : a knowledge perspective / Evelyn Au, Wendy Wan & Chi-yue Chiu; title: Biological models of organisms and their evolutionary change : their importance for epistemology and different cultural traditions / Karl Edlinger; title: What do genes have to do with cognition? / Wendy Johnson; title: Brain, behavior and cognition / Norbert Jauovec and Ksenija Jauovec; title: Physical health and cognition / Shulamith Kreitler, Kineret Weissler, and Frida Barak; title: Motivation, goals, thinking, and problem solving / K.J. Gilhooly and E. Fioratou; title: Motivation and heuristic thinking / Dan Zakay and Dida Fleisig; title: Motivation, decision theory and human decision making / Ola Svenson; title: Cognitive science and knowledge management : reflecting the limits of decision making / Rainer P. Born and Eva Gatarik; title: Interest and cognition : the case of L- and science / K. Ann Renninger and Kathryn R. Riley; title: Metacognition, motivation, and affect in the school context : metacognitive experiences in the regulation of learning / Anastasia Efklides; title: Motivation in language / Klaus-Uwe Panther; title: Intelligence and cognitive exceptionality / Edward Zigler; title: How conscious thought, imagination and fantasy may relate to cognition and motivation / Jerome L. Singer and Dorothy G. Singer; title: Creativity and motivation / Mark A. Runco and David McGarva.