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

tween affect, particularly positive affect, and cognitive processing. Further- more, Ashby et al. (1999) suggested that the rela ...

most of these tasks differ in a number of ways from the types of tasks used in academic contexts. The other theories reviewed he ...

and high arousal in the same measure (e.g., the conceptual change studies and graphing study). These measures do not allow us to ...

and cognitive processing (Linnenbrink & Pintrich, 2002b). For elaborative strategy use, there was a significant positive rel ...

the exam. The use of self-report measures is also problematic when linking af- fect to strategy use in that some of the shared v ...

expect that the use of higher-level cognitive strategies should enhance con- ceptual change. In terms of negative affect, Bless ...

broadens a student’s perspective, the student should be more open to chang- ing her understanding. That is, the positive emotion ...

encoded during storage of information when heuristic or substantive process- ing is used. It seems likely that conceptual change ...

In a study conducted with middle school students, we examined the rela- tion between students’ affect and their scores on a comp ...

This third limitation was of particular concern in the current study in that all three measures of affect were unrelated to stud ...

methodology used since both strategy use and affect were assessed using self-report measures. However, it is also possible that ...

ings between the studies may have had more to do with the types of tasks and processing of the information than students’ motiva ...

school children induced into a positive mood learned the shape-discrimi- nation task more quickly than children in a negative or ...

should also enhance performance. Therefore, the empirical research suggest- ing that positive affect enhances shape discriminati ...

computation problems that follow the general patterns students have previ- ously seen in math, positive affect may be beneficial ...

in certain situations, such as plotting data on graphs, calculating statistics, or interpreting misleading graphs. In addition, ...

oriented processing) and the manipulation of mood versus self-reported affect. Finally, the few studies that examined arousal ve ...

on affect and cognitive processing to include both valence and arousal. This may closely parallel extensions or revisions based ...

Fourth, the current state of the field makes it difficult to make suggestions to educators, particularly to classroom teachers. ...

REFERENCES Ashby, F. G., Isen, A. M., & Turken, A. U. (1999). A neuropsychological theory of positive af- fect and its influ ...