Situational and individual factors of reactive cognitive control: examining feedback and motivation

This study examined the influences of individuals’ cognitive intrinsic motivation and the presence or absence of feedback on a cognitive task that encouraged reactive cognitive control. I hypothesized that the presence of feedback would facilitate faster responses. I also hypothesized that cognitive intrinsic motivation, one’s disposition towards exerting cognitive effort, would be related to reactive cognitive control in reward situations. Sixty-six individuals completed the Need for Cognition questionnaire (Cacioppo & Petty, 1984) to measure cognitive intrinsic motivation and were randomly assigned to either a rewarded feedback or informative feedback Stroop task. My findings support my first hypothesis indicating a role of feedback in reactive cognitive control. There was partial support for my second hypothesis, that cognitive intrinsic motivation is related to rewarded reactive control performance.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Author dc:creator

• Robbins, Robert

Contributors dc:contributor

• Clark, Amanda J.
• Black, Kristen Jennings, 1991-; Shelton, Jill
• College of Arts and Sciences

• Feedback (Psychology)
• Intrinsic motivation
• Reward (Psychology)

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• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language

English, eng

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https://scholar.utc.edu/theses/755

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholar.utc.edu:theses-1928