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Direct linkFraser, Kurt M.; Janak, Patricia H. – Learning & Memory, 2019
The context in which reward-paired cues are encountered can resolve ambiguity and set the occasion for appropriate reward-seeking. The psychological processes by which contexts regulate reward-seeking remain unclear as contexts are diffuse and difficult to isolate from other stimuli. To overcome this, we modeled a context as a phasic and discrete…
Descriptors: Rewards, Animals, Cues, Cognitive Processes
Anderman, Eric M. – Educational Psychologist, 2010
In this article, I examine developments in research on achievement motivation and comment on how those developments are reflected in Wittrock's generative model of learning. Specifically, I focus on the roles of prior knowledge, the generation of knowledge, and beliefs about ability. Examples from Wittrock's theory and from current motivational…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Student Motivation, Achievement Need, Educational Psychology
Baer, Paul E.; Fuhrer, Marcus J. – J Abnorm Psychol, 1969
Research supported by United States Public Health Service Grant MH-12908. Portions of the study were presented to the Society for Psychophysiological Research, San Diego, 1967.
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Conditioning, Extinction (Psychology), Operant Conditioning
