ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the influences of prior knowledge, interest, broader notions of motivation, epistemic beliefs, and academic emotions. While it is important to understand how the presence or absence of prior knowledge influences strategy use, it is also important to examine how strategy use can build stores of domain and topic knowledge. Individual interest is not the only form of interest that may influence strategic processing. While the relation between strategic processing and interest has garnered attention in the research literature because of the Model of Domain Learning, other motivational processes have also been reported to influence strategic processing. An influence on strategic processing that is relatively recent is the influence of academic emotions on strategic processing. While both positive and negative emotions can be activating in terms of frequency of strategy use, the strategies employed by those feeling such emotions can differ. Negative affect, such as anxiety, has been negatively associated with deep-level strategies.
