ABSTRACT
There are two broad interrelationships between motivation and cognition: (a) the influence ofmotivation upon cognitive processes, and (b) the influence of cognitive processes upon motivation. The questions raised when considering the motivation ----'» cognition linkage include, for example, whether the range of information that is registered, processed, and used is augmented or restricted when individuals are highly motivated; whether we are able to learn more when the to-be-learned material is "interesting" or of personal value; and whether we are better able to retrieve information when there is something at stake, such as the potential reward desired by a quiz show contestant. That is, are information search. storage, and retrieval, perception, judgment, and decision making. and the remaining wide array of cognitive processes affected by motivational states? Of course. psychologists would Iike to do more than merely demonstrate that such as influence exists. The goal is to develop generallaws that relate motivation to cognition and to understand the mechanisms responsible for this association.
