Cognitive motivation : from curiosity to identity, purpose and meaning / David Beswick.

Author/creator Beswick, D. G. author.
Format Electronic
PublicationCambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Description1 online resource (377 pages)
Supplemental ContentProQuest Ebook Central
Subjects
Motivation (Psychology)
Cognition.

Contents Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Incomplete Gestalt -- The Incomplete Gestalt -- Summary -- Part I Forms of Cognitive Motivation -- 1 Towards a General Theory of Cognitive Motivation -- Introduction -- Developing Ideas of Cognitive Motivation -- The Scope of Cognitive Motivation -- Need Reduction and Historic Points of Contention -- Prospects for Theory Development -- The Motivational Consequences of an Incomplete Gestalt -- Integration
Contents Reaching for the Gestalt; Emotion and Goal Seeking -- The Form of Cognitive Explanations -- Summary -- 2 Curiosity -- Introduction -- Origins of Curiosity Research in the Cognitive Revolution -- Common Language Concepts of Curiosity -- Careful Attention -- Literary Examples of Epistemic Hunger and Its Ambivalence -- Curiosity and Cognitive Organisation in the Arts and Sciences -- Wonder -- The Cognitive Process Theory of Curiosity -- Gaps in Knowledge, Uncertainty, Conflict and Good Form
Contents The Cognitive Map and the Coding Operation, Assimilation and Accommodation; The Combination of Approach and Avoidance -- Delay of Gratification -- Empirical Support for the Cognitive Process Theory -- Parallel Development of Theory and the Fantasy Measure -- Orderliness, Openness, Delay of Gratification and Other Correlates -- Specific Curiosity and Diversive Exploration -- The Intrinsic Motivation Test -- Components of Curiosity -- Multidimensional Direct Measurement of Components in the Curiosity Process -- Sensory, Perceptual and Epistemic Curiosity
Contents Feelings of Deprivation and Interest; Neural Bases for Liking and Wanting as Different Kinds of Arousal -- Metacognitive Processes -- Summary -- 3 Intrinsic Motivation -- Introduction: The Nature of Intrinsic Motivation -- Alternative Conceptions of Intrinsic Motivation -- The Concept of Interest -- Origins of Intrinsic Motivation Theory -- The Search for a New Kind of Drive -- Play Types of Instinct and the Functional Autonomy of Motives -- Personality Dynamics That Moderate the Effects of Rewards -- Personal Causation -- Responsibility
Contents Self-Determination and the Effects of Extrinsic Rewards; Beyond Self-Determination Theory -- Organismic Integration and Cognitive Motivation -- A Cognitive-Affective Account of Basic Needs -- Summary -- 4 Cognitive Dissonance -- Introduction -- Some Gestalt Theory Origins -- Cognitive Dissonance as a Theory of Motivation -- Festingerâ#x80;#x99;s Basic Principles of Dissonance -- Induced Compliance Effects -- Physiological Arousal in Dissonance -- Dissonance as an Aversive Drive -- Self-Referent Modifications to Dissonance Theory
Contents ""Aronsonâ#x80;#x99;s Self-Consistency Theory of Cognitive Dissonance""
Summary Motivation and cognition were treated as separate concepts throughout most of twentieth-century psychology. However, in recent years researchers have begun viewing the two as inextricably intertwined: not only does what we want affect how we think, but how we think affects what we want. In this innovative study, Beswick present a new general theory of cognitive motivation, synthesizing decades of existing research in social, cognitive and personality psychology. New basic concepts are applied to a wide range of purposive behaviour. Part I of the volume reviews different forms of cognitive motivation, such as curiosity, cognitive dissonance, achievement motivation, and the search for purpose and meaning, while Part II examines the basic processes that underlie it, such as working memory, attention and emotion. The central concept is the incomplete gestalt, in which motivation is generated by a universal striving to integrate information and make sense at all levels of cognitive organization.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Source of descriptionVendor-supplied metadata.
Issued in other formPrint version: Beswick, D.G. Cognitive motivation. Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017 9781107177666 1107177669
Genre/formElectronic books.
ISBN9781316838464 (electronic bk.)
ISBN1316838463 (electronic bk.)
ISBN9781316822920
ISBN1316822923

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Electronic Resources Access Content Online ✔ Available