Motivation, Emotion, and Cognition : Integrative Perspectives On Intellectual Functioning and Development

The second limitation of such cognitivism, related to the first one, is its exclusive focus on the constraints of what is called ...

As Kasparov (2003) pointed out, Deep Blue not only was unaware of the fact it was playing a world champion, but had no self-awar ...

contexts to the forefront. Indeed, efforts for integrating motivation, emotion, and cognition have been made by those pioneers o ...

tive^4 overtones, is not new (e.g., Bartlett, 1932). In the early years of the cognitive revolution, Abelson (1963) challenged c ...

1998). This perspective sheds a new light on the old debate over cognitive ver- sus emotional primacy (Lazarus, 1984; Zajonc, 19 ...

Integration of the Second Order: Psychological-Behavioral Approaches We call the second type of approach psychological-behaviora ...

and sciences has also become a research focus (e.g., Goldin, 2000; Gruber, 1995; McLeod, 1989; Thagard, 2002). Integration of th ...

be it children’s conceptions of kinds or categories (Carey, 1999), or learning of mathematics (Schoenfeld, 1992). The Centrality ...

activity to the person, decomposing it is difficult, if not impossible (Hidi, Renninger, & Krapp, chap. 4). However, in Hidi ...

wide range of intellectual activities, from the development of new scientific theories (e.g., Darwin’s evolutionary theory; see ...

synthesis of the literature). This represents a reductionistic route to the nature of intelligence. In contrast, nonreductionist ...

one’s typical intellectual functioning in a specific situation. In their triadic conception of thinking, including sensitivity, ...

A different tack can be seen in Matthews and Zeidner’s (chap. 6) work on personality functioning. Here, intellectual functioning ...

tions to environmental demands and opportunities, facilitated or constrained by transactional experiences and activities, and ma ...

center of gravity in their model is M-capacity, the developing mental capac- ity. What is the most striking is their painstaking ...

Leone and Johnson (chap. 8) and Labouvie-Vief and Gonzalez (chap. 9) carry over the Piagetian legacy of the former, not the latt ...

as semantic-rich or knowledge-rich rather than knowledge-lean (Simon, 1979; see Alexander, chap. 10, for an illustration of the ...

practice are often confounded in real life, due to the inherent self-selection process wherein individuals may opt out as the re ...

choosing a certain option, both immediately and in the future)” (p. 105). To illustrate Damasio’s point, think of Kasparov conte ...

INTELLECTUAL FUNCTIONING AND DEVELOPMENT IN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS So far all discussion of integrated understanding focus ...